Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Leaving the Stage
1 The Road to Music Hall
2 The Basement and the Cellars
3 At the Fringe
4 The First Pioneer
5 Explosion
6 The Swells and the Costers
7 The Serio-Comediennes
8 Marie Lloyd
9 Dan Leno and Little Tich
10 The Comic and the Minstrel
11 The Cross-Dressers: Girls Who Were Boys
12 Top Hats and Black Faces
13 The Business of Pleasure
14 Warp and Weft
15 The Exotic and the Bizarre
16 Amusement of the People
17 The Literati and the Artists
18 Enterprise and Outrage
19 Overseas Music Hall
20 Music Hall War
21 Tom and Kitty
22 The Seeds of Decline
23 World War I
24 Aftermath
Index of Songs
General Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Author’s Note
About the Author
Other Works
Picture Section
Copyright
About the Publisher
