Reviews for Masquerade In Black

The average rating for Masquerade In Black based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-01 00:00:00 Carlos Holden The Victorians are endlessly fascinating to me. Among Victorian writers Charles Dickens is my favourite. It was only a matter of time, therefore, before I stumbled onto Michael Booth's study the Victorian theatre. If only I had come across Booth's book before meeting the Crummles theatre troupe in Nicholas Nickleby or the theatrical career of Wopsle in Great Expectations. There is, of course, Dickens's own long and rich career as a writer, producer and performer on stage as well. Booth's text is effectively separated into various areas of the theatre such as "Theatre and society" "Management" and "playhouse and production." Each chapter is comprehensive without being too esoteric, and each chapter is complete with illustrations. At the back of the book is a comprehensive list of sources should a reader like to further investigate and learn about any specific area of the Victorian Theatre. For anyone who wants to learn about or supplement their knowledge of Victorian theatre this is an excellent source.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-06-28 00:00:00 TONY FRANCIS I found Jowett's ability to describe conflicting viewpoints very refreshing. My experience of textual criticism so far has been primarily of highly dogmatic people insisting (even if they're postmodernists and theoretically against such black-and-white thinking) that all textual scholarship not in accord with their own is ignorant, misguided, and deeply harmful to the unsuspecting reader at the other end of the edition. Jowett obviously has his own biases and advocates his own opinions, but he is capable of presenting both sides of the question fairly and admitting that the truth is ultimately unknowable. We are highly unlikely, after all, ever to find a Shakespeare manuscript, so any prevailing theory is really just speculation.