{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Show Must Go On: Treading the Boards of the Victorian Stage","description":"Join me tonight as we tread the boards of the Victorian stage and learn what it was like for actors, directors, and writers as they navigated a world that didn't yet appreciate their gifts. We will experience a revolution that was started with song and dance, watch as theatre fires consume the streets of London, learn about Victorian special effects, lighting, and set design, and meet some interesting characters along the way! The Devil's Dinner Hour is written, edited, produced, and hosted by Evelyn James  Music: David Fesilyan, David Renda & Sergei Chetvertnykh   Become a Patreon     Sources: Works Cited Anon. \u201cVictorian Special Effects: Stage Machinery at Alexandra Palace.\u201d Google Arts & Culture, artsandculture.google.com\/story\/victorian-special-effects-stage-machinery-at-alexandra-palace-alexandra-palace\/MgUBF2DCIe1ZKg?hl=en. Baker, James William. \u201cThe Covent Garden Old Price Riots: Protest and Justice in Late\u2011Georgian London.\u201d Open Library of Humanities, vol. 2, no. 1, 24 Feb. 2016, p. 4, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.16995\/olh.13. Booth, Michael R., and Internet Archive. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Internet Archive, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991, archive.org\/details\/theatreinvictori0000boot\/page\/n247\/mode\/2up. Accessed 17 July 2024. Gibson, W. \u201cWe Saw Him Act: A Symposium on the Art of Sir Henry Irving.\u201d English, vol. 3, no. 13, 1 Mar. 1940, pp. 36\u201336, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/english\/3.13.36-a. Accessed 15 Nov. 2021. Greville, Charles, and Lytton Strachey. The Greville Memoirs : 1814-1860 \/ 7 January 1854 to November 1860. London, Macmillan, 1938. Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu, Max Roser and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina (2023) - \u201cInternet\u201d Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/internet' [Online Resource] Julie, Melnyk. Journal of Victorian Studies. King, W. D. \u201cWhen Theater Becomes History: Final Curtains on the Victorian Stage.\u201d Victorian Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, 1992, pp. 53\u201361, www.jstor.org\/stable\/3827933. Accessed 17 July 2024. Moore, Thomas . \u201cOld Price and Shangle Jack the Shewman\u201d., 6 Oct. 1809. O\u2019Daniel, William. Ins and Outs of London. 1859. Pilbrow, Richard. Stage Lighting Design : The Art, the Craft, the Life. Hollywood, By Design Press ; London, 2008. \u201cProscenium | Theatre.\u201d Encyclopedia Britannica, www.britannica.com\/art\/proscenium. Saunders, George, and Internet Archive. A Treatise on Theatres. By George Saunders. 1790. Internet Archive, 1790, archive.org\/details\/bim_eighteenth-century_a-treatise-on-theatres-_saunders-george_1790\/page\/n15\/mode\/2up. Accessed 17 July 2024. \u201cSavoy Theatre - Electric Light Demonstration.\u201d Gsarchive.net, gsarchive.net\/carte\/savoy\/electric.html. Accessed 17 July 2024. Tegg, Thomas. The Rise, Progress, and Termination of the O.P. War, in Poetic Epistles, or Hudibrastic Letters from Ap Simpkins in Town, to His Friend Ap Davies in Wales; Including All the Best Songs, Placards, Toasts, &c. &c. London: Published by Thomas           Tegg, 1810. Print. \u201cThe Electric Light at the Savoy Theatre 1.\u201d Nature, vol. 27, no. 696, Mar. 1883, pp. 418\u2013419, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/027418a0. Accessed 5 Feb. 2022. \u201cTheatre in the 19th Century | the British Library.\u201d British Library, www.britishlibrary.cn\/en\/articles\/theatre-in-the-19th-century\/. Wild, Larry. A Brief Outline of the History of Stage Lighting . Northern State University, 14 July 2015.   ","author_name":"The Devil's Dinner Hour","author_url":"http:\/\/devilsdinnerhourpod.libsyn.com\/website","html":"