10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENNY-GAFF»
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Romantic and Revolutionary Theatre, 1789-1860
The repertoire largely consisted of cut-down versions of popular melodramas,
comic songs and dances.1 1 See Henry Mayhew's description of a Smithfield
penny gaff in the 1850s in London labour and l/ic London poor (London: Griffon.
Donald Roy, Victor Emeljanow, 2003
'London: A Pilgrimage' is a forgotten classic of social journalism, a frank and brutal look at the poverty striken, gin-swilling London of the nineteenth century, written in a perceptive, bold and gripping style. 180 incredible etchings by ...
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London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the ...
Of the "Penny Gaff." In many of the thoroughfares of London there are shops
which have been turned into a kind of temporary theatre (admission one penny),
where dancing and singing take place every night. Rude pictures of the
performers ...
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Popular Theatre: A Sourcebook
A slightly more sophisticated example of an improvised theatre was the “penny
gaff.” Located in former stables, shops, or sheds, this form catered to working-
class audiences in nineteenth-century England. Henry Mayhew visited a typical ...
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The Language of Theatre
Gaff A C19 term for a building temporarily given over for use as a theatre, usually
for music hall or melodrama ; often referred to as a penny gaff on account of the
low admission fee. In the mC18, a gaff was a fair and the theatrical usage is ...
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The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre
His designs are typified by a strong sense of colour and a certain whimsicality of
line. penny gaff see PENNYTHEATRES penny theatres English playhouses.
Cheap minor playhouses arose in Regency London which allowed amateurs, ...
Sarah Stanton, Martin Banham, 1996
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Public Space, Media Space
Matt discovered a key form of entertainment that development there in the
Victorian era was the “Penny Gaff,” where people paid a penny to be entertained
by magicians, escapologists, singers and so on. He then found people in
Stratford who ...
Chris Berry, Janet Harbord, Rachel O. Moore, 2013
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Next Week--East Lynne: Domestic Drama in Performance, 1820-1874
... Labour and the London Poor, 4 227 Appendix: Penny Gaff and Blood Tub.
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
The -5 form, which is not found before C.17, > gen. in C18; a penny for 'em
belongs to late C.19-20 (Apperson; Collinson) as does the mere penny?, q.v.
penny(-)gaff. A low-class theatre, music-hall: 1851 (Mayhew); slightly ob. by 1902
(F. & H) ...
... are several layers of strangeness here as the performance offers its own
shabby attempt at foreign exotica. Penny gaff presentations usually lasted an
hour and were repeated several times to different audiences in the course of an
evening.
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