The English Stage: Being an Account of the Victorian Drama
CHAPTER III
The Vogue of Burlesque--Burnand's _Ixion_--H. J. Byron--The Influence of Burlesque upon the Moral Tone of the Stage--Marie Wilton's Debut--A Letter from Dickens--Founding of the Prince of Wales's--Tom Robertson, his Life as Actor and Author--His Journalistic Career--London Bohemia in 1865--Sothern 93