Circus Life and Circus Celebrities Victorian Showmen, Equestrian Arenas, Clowns, Acrobats, and the Rise of Popular Entertainment
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
28.11.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
112
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,8 cm
Gewicht
253 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-4077-3
Thomas Frost's Circus Life and Circus Celebrities is a lively Victorian survey of the circus as institution, spectacle, and social world. Combining antiquarian history with journalistic anecdote, the book traces equestrian entertainments, acrobats, clowns, managers, and celebrated performers from Philip Astley's arena onward. Its style is richly documentary, alert to gossip, craft, danger, and showmanship, placing popular entertainment within the broader nineteenth-century culture of urban leisure and public curiosity. Frost was a prolific English journalist, editor, and author whose career brought him into close contact with the changing tastes of the reading public. His interest in radical politics, street culture, and the lives of unconventional figures helped shape his sympathetic attention to performers often dismissed as marginal. Rather than treating the circus merely as novelty, he records its labor, discipline, personalities, and commercial ingenuity. This book is recommended to readers interested in theatre history, Victorian popular culture, performance studies, and the genealogy of modern entertainment. It offers both a valuable historical source and an engaging gallery of circus celebrities, preserving a vanished world with warmth, curiosity, and scholarly usefulness.
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