BUNN, Alfred.

£750 · Offered by Peter Harrington

The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, First edition of the author's memoirs of his career as a prominent theatre manager and librettist. A somewhat controversial figure, Bunn was spurned by the theatrical intelligentsia, who decried his decisions to stage lighter works, including tightrope and similar circus acts, at his theatres. The Stage was published a year after he declared bankruptcy in 1839, and is in part a defence of his management, an argument for government support for the theatre, and a detailed history of the stage.

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