Lilian Baylis : a biography /

"The first biography of Lilian Baylis for over thirty years and one which considerably revises the established image of Baylis as a domineering and eccentric old lady." "When Lilian Baylis was badly hurt after a car accident, someone at the scene called out, 'It's Miss Bayli...

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Main Author: Schafer, Elizabeth
Corporate Author: Society for Theatre Research
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press : Society for Theatre Research, 2006.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Beginnings: 'housing and music, music and housing' -- South Africa: Baylis's adventures 1891-1897 -- Lilian Baylis and Emma Cons -- Personal matters -- Baylis's first love: opera -- 'I turned, in despair, to Shakespeare': Baylis and the Bard -- The 1920s: Baylis builds an empire -- Baylis and the ballet -- The 1930s -- The Baylis legacy. 
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