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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Chapter I .THE ENGLISH THEATER 1840-80 -- Chapter II. EARLY YEARS -- Chapter III. BURLESQUES AND EXTRAVAGANZAS -- Chapter IV. EARLY PLAYS 1844-52 -- Chapter V .THE PERIOD OF COLLABORATION WITH CHARLES READE 1852-56 -- Chapter VI. PLAYS FOR THE OLYMPIC 1853-60 -- Chapter VII. HAYMARKET COMEDIES 1857-70 -- Chapter VIII. MELODRAMAS AND DRAMAS 1860-70 -- Chapter IX. POETIC AND PROSE PLAYS 1870-80 -- Chapter X. NONDRAMATIC WRITING -- GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Studies English playwriting between 1840-1880 when Tom Taylor was one of the most popular and representative to show the manner in which his work reflects most of the experiments made by early and mid-Victorian dramatists