'A woyage o' diskivery': Thomas J. Williams' The Peep-Show Man (1868) and the victorian performative text
(2009)
Journal Article
Mattacks, K. (2009). 'A woyage o' diskivery': Thomas J. Williams' The Peep-Show Man (1868) and the victorian performative text. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 36(2), 53-62
This article focuses upon the variant manuscripts of a play concerning a travelling peep-show man. The evidence reveals that like the hero, the text travels widely and undergoes significant textual changes according to the medium in which it appears.