Provider: World Shakespeare Bibliography https://www.worldshakesbib.org Database: WSB Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - JOUR VL - 39 IS - 3 T2 - Textual Practice SP - 329-44 ID - bbbo855 T1 - "'New light': Gas and the Elementary Affect of Early Melodrama" AU - Russell, Gillian PY - 2025 DA - 2026 LA - English AB - Describes how introduction of gas lights to London theatres emphasized intensity and melodrama, using Edmund Kean's performance as King Lear as example. ER -