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Bruegge, Andrew Vorder "W. S. Gilbert: Antiquarian Authenticity and Artistic Autocracy" (Associate Professor, Department Chair, Department of Theatre and Dance, Winthrop University). Professor Bruegge presented this paper at the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United
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and David Roberts. It was converted into a theatre and opened in 1836 as the Princess's Theatre, named for then
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got their starts at the theatre. Thereafter, the theatre presented mainly melodrama.
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Jack the Giant Killer, or, Harlequin, King Arthur, and ye Knights of ye Round Table
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In 1864, a particularly popular drama was presented at the theatre called
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Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday and the King of the Caribee Islands!
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Thomas, Peter (1995). "Princess's Theatre". In Banham, Martin (ed.).
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Princess House (at 150 Oxford Street). This initially housed a
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The theatre closed permanently in 1902 after its last success,
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Princess House has stood on the site of the theatre since 1931.
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before her accession as queen. After an unsuccessful series of
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Former buildings and structures in the City of Westminster
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Princess's Theatre
51°30′57″N 0°8′16″W / 51.51583°N 0.13778°W / 51.51583; -0.13778

Oxford Street
diorama
Clarkson Stanfield
Princess Victoria
promenade concerts
Vincenzo Bellini
La sonnambula
John Medex Maddox
General Tom Thumb
Charles Kean
Dion Boucicault
Ellen Terry
Henry Irving
H. J. Byron
pantomimes
Sefton Parry
The Lights o' London
farcical
George Robert Sims
Theatre Royal, Exeter
Exeter Theatre Royal fire

The Fatal Wedding
Theodore Kremer
art deco
Woolworth
HMV

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