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British Theatre, Music, and Literature
British Theatre, Music, and Literature
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• More than 1 million
===Product Modules===
• Asia and the West
• British Politics and Society
• British Theatre, Music, and Literature
• Children's Literature and Childhood
• European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840
• Europe and Africa, Colonialism and Culture
• Maps and Travel Literature
• Photography
• Religion, Reform, and Society
• Science, Technology, and Medicine Part I
• Science, Technology, and Medicine Part II
• Women and Transnational Networks
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• Brochure
• Catalog
• Factsheet
Explore British plays, music, and literature in the nineteenth century.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature (formerly known as British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture) features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history. Covering approximately 1733 to 1968, this is without equal a resource for nineteenth-century scholars.
Interest in the arts became big business in the Victorian era, as a burgeoning middle class became patrons. This archive includes thousands of invaluable primary sources -- including original, signed works -- that explore Victorian popular culture, bloods and penny dreadfuls, music, the history of the English stage, and more.
Collections include:
• Archives of the Royal Literary Fund
• Archives of the Royal Philharmonic Society
• Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts
• Crystal Palace Triennial Handel Festival
• Drury Lane Theatre Archive
• J.W. Davison Papers
• King's Theatre, Haymarket Archive
• Konzert-Programm-Austausch
• Lord Chamberlain's Plays
• Royal Albert Hall Archives
• Sir George Smart Papers
• St. James Hall Monday/Saturday Popular Concerts
• Wandering Minstrels
• And many more
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious electronic scholarly archive of its kind, providing full-text, fully searchable content from a wide range of primary sources. Selected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods.
This unparalleled collection provides a detailed look at the state of the British art world. It contains not only manuscripts and compositions, but also documents such as personal letters, annotated programs, meeting minutes, and financial records, offering scholars an unmatched glimpse into the inner workings of the arts world and life in Victorian Britain.
British Theatre, Music, and Literature is available on Gale's cutting-edge research platform. This state-of-the-art platform was developed using our flexible Agile approach, incorporating user testing and feedback throughout the process to ensure that we are providing the features that scholars require -- such as detailed subject indexing and metadata, textual analysis tools, personalized user accounts, and more -- for research in the digital age. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Theatre, Music, and Literature (formerly known as British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture) features a wide range of primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history. Covering approximately 1733 to 1968, this is without equal a resource for nineteenth-century scholars.
Interest in the arts became big business in the Victorian era, as a burgeoning middle class became patrons. This archive includes thousands of invaluable primary sources -- including original, signed works -- that explore Victorian popular culture, bloods and penny dreadfuls, music, the history of the English stage, and more.
Collections include:
• Archives of the Royal Literary Fund
• Archives of the Royal Philharmonic Society
• Crystal Palace Saturday Concerts
• Crystal Palace Triennial Handel Festival
• Drury Lane Theatre Archive
• J.W. Davison Papers
• King's Theatre, Haymarket Archive
• Konzert-Programm-Austausch
• Lord Chamberlain's Plays
• Royal Albert Hall Archives
• Sir George Smart Papers
• St. James Hall Monday/Saturday Popular Concerts
• Wandering Minstrels
• And many more
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious electronic scholarly archive of its kind, providing full-text, fully searchable content from a wide range of primary sources. Selected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods.
This unparalleled collection provides a detailed look at the state of the British art world. It contains not only manuscripts and compositions, but also documents such as personal letters, annotated programs, meeting minutes, and financial records, offering scholars an unmatched glimpse into the inner workings of the arts world and life in Victorian Britain.
British Theatre, Music, and Literature is available on Gale's cutting-edge research platform. This state-of-the-art platform was developed using our flexible Agile approach, incorporating user testing and feedback throughout the process to ensure that we are providing the features that scholars require -- such as detailed subject indexing and metadata, textual analysis tools, personalized user accounts, and more -- for research in the digital age. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history.
