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The Gaiety Girl and the Matinee Idol: Constructing Celebrity, Glamour and Sexuality in the West End of London, 1890-1914

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posted on 2023-09-01, 15:08 authored by Rohan McWilliam
This study examines the role that musical comedy on stage played in shaping popular culture in the long Edwardian period (1890-1914). It is based around two iconic theatrical types of the period: the Gaiety Girl and the matinee idol. Historians have underestimated their importance and what they represented. These two are decoded as a way of understanding the development of a culture based upon glamour, celebrity, fashion, display and public forms of sexuality which started to break with Victorianism. It looks in particular at the musical comedies produced by the West End impresario George Edwardes and explores their links to the developing fashion and beauty industries of the period.

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  • Yes

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

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Cambridge University Press

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  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2022-12-09

Legacy creation date

2022-12-09

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

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