Composers

• Music in the Era of Queen Victoria
• Michael W. Balfe)
• Sir Edward Elgar
• Edward German
• Percy Grainger
• Hubert Parry
• Roger Quilter
• Dame Ethel Smyth
• Arthur Somervell
• Charles Villiers Stanford
• Richard Strauss
• Sir Arthur Sullivan
• Maude Valerie White

Drama, including Dramatists

• Dion Boucicault
• Robert Browning
• Oscar Wilde
• Sir William S. Gilbert
• Aesthetes and Decadents
• London Theaters

Genre

• Melodrama
• Burlesque
• The Drawing-room Ballad or Parlour Song
• Fairy Plays
• Middle Class Satire
• The Music Hall
• Opera (see bibliography)
• Pantomime
• Tragedy
• Dramatic adaptations of Victorian Fiction

Themes

• a Contemporary (1871) Look at Victorian Theater
• Politics in Theater
• Religion and the Church
• Mocking Society

Selected Works

• Salome by Oscar Wilde
• Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan
• The Frozen Deep by Charles Dickens

Audience and Entertainment

• The Development of Leisure in Britain, 1700-1850
• The Development of Leisure in Britain after 1850
• The Crystal Palace International Exhibition of 1851

Popular Entertainment

• The Lord Mayor's Show, 1859 (from the Illustrated London News)
• Victorian settings of nursery rhymes by J.W. Elliott from the 1870s (outside VW)
• A Step Back in Time: Amnerican Victorian Music, 1835-1903 (outside VW)
• Victorian Toy Theatres — an Introduction
• Penny Plain, Twopence Coloured — Victorian Toy Theatre (outside VW)
• Victorian Magic Lantern Shows (outside VW)

A View of Popular Theater by Gustave Doré
from London: A Pilgrimage

Bibliography

• General (including popular entertainment)
• British Music Hall and Variety
• Victorian Opera
• Theatrical memoirs, Biographies, and Autobiographies
• Related Websites
• Individual Figures
  • Edward Gordon Craig
  • Gielgud, John
  • Harley Granville-Barker
  • Henry Irving
  • William Charles Macready
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Ellen Terry
  • Beerbohm Tree
  • Oscar Wilde

Music, Theatre, Popular Entertainment, and the Visual Arts

• Representations in Contemporary Art
• The Architecture of Victorian Theaters