Arts of public performance: Barristers and actors in Georgian England

Crime, Courtrooms and the Public Sphere in Britain, 1700-1850

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 93-117

  Devereaux, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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