Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life.(Book review)

Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life, by Richard Foulkes; pp. xi + 224. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2005, 45.00 [pounds sterling], $89.95.

As someone who has not only written on Charles Dodgson's lifelong passion for the dramatic and visual arts, but also found Richard Foulkes's 1986 Shakespeare and the Victorian Stage a precious guide in my research of nineteenth-century drama, I have been eagerly awaiting the publication of this comprehensive study of the prominent part played by the Victorian stage in Lewis Carroll's life. I anticipated a revaluation of Dodgson and theatre as groundbreaking as Roger Taylor and Edward Wakeling's work on Dodgson and photography in Lewis Carroll Photographer (2002), and my expectations have been more than fulfilled. Foulkes's exceptional scholarship enables him to establish such convincing connections between …