"'New light': Gas and the Elementary Affect of Early Melodrama"
https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo855/
Author:
	Russell, Gillian.
Type:
	Journal Article
Year:
	2025
Publication Information:
	Textual Practice 39, no. 3 (2025): 329–44.
Annotation:
	Describes how introduction of gas lights to London theatres emphasized intensity and melodrama, using Edmund Kean's performance as King Lear as example.
Language:
	English
Persons:
	Kean, Edmund
Tags:
	Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Stage and Theater History, Theatrical Techniques
WSB Update:
	Fall 2025
WSB Record Number:
	bbbo855