Article: Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life.(Book review)

Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life. By RICHARD FOULKES. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. xi + 224 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-0466-2.

In his new study of Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll, Richard Foulkes investigates every aspect of theatricality attached to the author of the Alice books, in the process uncovering many fascinating byways of the Victorian artistic and social scene. Dodgson was a highly contradictory character capable of espousing some liberal views while remaining a fundamentally strait-laced and censorious individual, and the story of his relations with a variety of theatrical enterprises throughout his life ...

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