The Lyceum Theatre, London
Jeffrey Richards looks at a stage where Victorian theatre attained its apogee
From 1871 to 1903 the Lyceum Theatre in London, home of the leading actor-manager of nineteenth-century Britain, Sir Henry Irving, was, in the words of journalist Austin Brereton, 'a national theatre but without a subsidy'. On its stage Victorian theatre attained its apogee.
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