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Article: The Egyptian Hall and the platform of transatlantic exchange: Charles Browne, P. T. Barnum, and Albert Smith.
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- March 22, 2002
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This article examines the careers of three mid-century performers, the Americans Charles Browne and P. T. Barnum, and the Englishman Albert Smith. Their appearances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly offer an alternative account of transatlantic cultural exchange to that developed through legitimate theatre. The theatre of display, parody, comedy, and fraud that they established negotiated the complex cultural and political tensions and borrowings between Britain and America in the period leading to and including the Civil War.
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The American humorist Charles Browne visited London in November 1866 to perform his comic lecture "Artemus Ward Among ...
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