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Mini Cardboard Theatres: How The 19th-Century English Bourgeoisie Staged Plays At Home

THEATRE Posted: August 16, 2019 11:02 am

“The characters were laid out on sheets of paper, frozen in dramatic poses … [and] the sets [were] storybook illustrations of extravagant palaces and howling wildernesses, to be slotted in and out of the back of the theater, behind the cavorting characters. The scripts that came with them were as miniaturized as the stage.” – JSTOR Daily

THEATRE Published: 08.08.19

Read the story in JSTOR Daily Published: 08.08.19

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