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Michael R. Booth

Author of The Lights o' London and Other Victorian Plays

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Includes the names: Michael R. Booth, Michael R. ed. Booth, Michael Richard Booth

Also includes: Michael Booth (2)

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Please do not combine with other authors named Michael Booth.

Works by Michael R. Booth

The Lights o' London and Other Victorian Plays (1995) — Editor — 23 copies

Theatre in the Victorian Age (Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs) (1991) 20 copies

The Revels History of Drama in English: Volume VI, 1750-1880 (1975) 15 copies

31 Stories (1960) — Editor — 12 copies

Eighteenth century tragedy (1965) 8 copies

Prefaces to English nineteenth-century theatre (1980) 7 copies

Victorian Spectacular Theatre, 1850-1910 (Theatre Production Studies) (1981) 6 copies

The magistrate and other nineteenth-century plays (1974) 6 copies

The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage (1996) 5 copies

English Plays of the Nineteenth Century: II. Dramas 1850-1900 (1969) 4 copies

Victorian Theatrical Trades (1982) 4 copies

English Plays of the Nineteenth Century: I. Dramas 1800-1850 (1969) 4 copies

Hiss the villain; six English and American melodramas (1972) 4 copies

English Melodrama (1965) 4 copies

Historia teatru (2007) 1 copy

English Plays of the Nineteenth Century: IV. Farces 1 copy

English Plays of the Nineteenth Century: III. Comedies (1973) 1 copy

Associated Works

English National Opera Guide : Verdi : Macbeth (1990) — Contributor — 24 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Booth, Michael Richard
Birthdate: 1931
Gender: male
Nationality: Canada
Birthplace: China
Occupations: professor of theatre
theater critic
author
Organizations: University of Warwick
University of Victoria
University of Guelph
Disambiguation notice: Please do not combine with other authors named Michael Booth.

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31 stories by Michael R. Booth

The editors collected short stories for an English course aimed at college undergraduates. They included stories "not commonly anthologised" as well as "the more traditional material". No other teaching or student "crutch" has been provided by way of critical aids.

The authors do provide very brief Biographical information about the authors -- including the dates of publications of the stories.

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keylawk | 1 other review | Mar 16, 2014 |

31 Stories by Michael R. ed. Booth

Contents:
- Conrad Aiken: Mr. Arcularis
- Sherwood Anderson: Death in the Woods
- Ray Bradbury: The Pedestrian
- John Cheever: Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor
- John Collier: Bottle Party
- Joseph Conrad: The Secret Sharer
- Stephen Crane: The Open Boat
- William Faulkner: Mule in the Yard
- William Faulkner: The Old People
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Lost Decade
- E.M. Forster: The Celestial Omnibus
- Graham Greene: The Basement Room
- Ernest Hemingway: Cat in the Rain
- James Joyce: Araby
- James Joyce: A Little Cloud
- D.H. Lawrence: Shades of Spring
- Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party
- Katherine Mansfield: The Daughters of the Late Colonel
- Katherine Anne Porter: Theft
- V.S. Pritchett: The Saint
- Sinclair Ross: One's a Heifer
- William Saroyan: The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
- William Daniel Steele: How Beautiful with Shoes
- John Steinbeck: The Leader of the People
- Dylan Thomas: A Story
- James Thurber: The Greatest Man in the World
- Lionel Trilling: Of This Time, Of That Place
- Eudora Welty: Livvie
- Angus Wilson: Totentanz
- Ethel Wilson: Mrs. Golightly and the First Convention
- Virginia Woolf: The New Dress

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George Robert Sims Contributor

Joseph Stirling Coyne Contributor

Edward Fitzball Contributor

Sean Creagh Cover artist

George Henry Lewes Contributor

Wilbur Daniel Steele Contributor

William Saroyan Contributor

Ethel Wilson Contributor

Sinclair Ross Contributor

Conrad Aiken Contributor

John Collier Contributor

Lionel Trilling Contributor

Angus Wilson Contributor

V. S. Pritchett Contributor

John Steinbeck Contributor

Ray Bradbury Contributor

Graham Greene Contributor

Ernest Hemingway Contributor

Virginia Woolf Contributor

F. Scott Fitzgerald Contributor

James Joyce Contributor

William Faulkner Contributor

Joseph Conrad Contributor

D. H. Lawrence Contributor

Katherine Mansfield Contributor

E. M. Forster Contributor

James Thurber Contributor

Stephen Crane Contributor

Dylan Thomas Contributor

Eudora Welty Contributor

John Cheever Contributor

Sherwood Anderson Contributor

Katherine Anne Porter Contributor

Statistics

Works: 17
Also by: 1
Members: 125
Popularity: #160,151
Rating: ½ 3.6

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 30
Languages: 1

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