The Terrible Fitzball: The Melodramatist of the Macabre

Author/Contributor(s):	Clifton, Larry Stephen
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Date:	01/01/1993
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The greatest portrayer of blue-fire deviltry, Edward Fitzball was a melodramatist on the nineteenth-century British stage. His Theatre of the Macabre was very much a forebearer of the sensationalized media of today. This book discusses Fitzball's life, and his dramatic oeuvre.