This Abosrbing book takes the reader from Tudor times to the moern era from the old Globe to the new Globe describing the personalities productions and buildings which have made Londons theatre so important in world drama.
With many illustrations it portrays the low and high points or drama in the capital from the raw productions of Shakespeare's day to the sophisticated and elitist theatres between the wars counterbalanced by populist and raucous music halls. And then on to the revolution in play writing and acting since the 1960s.
