A guest post by Tracy C. Davis, Barber Professor of Performing Arts — Northwestern University. Extracted from the preface to Dorothy in Tracy C. Davis, ed., The Broadview Anthology of Nineteenth-Century British Performance (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2012). The full text of the book and lyrics (based on the British Library's manuscript) appears for the first time in this volume. Florence Dysart as Lydia [V…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:43AM on October 18, 2012