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Edwardian musical comedy is a genre of British musical theatre that thrived from 1892 into the 1920s, extending beyond the reign of King Edward VII in both directions.
Elsie Cotton (née Hodder, 8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962), known professionally as Lily Elsie, was an English actress and singer during the Edwardian era.
Edwardian writers like E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, and H.G. Wells built upon the social conscience of Victorian era (1837-1901), writers such as Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte. Their epic Bildungsromans 'Oliver Twist' and 'Jane Eyre' probed at the disparity between social class, gender and family hierarchies.
Thespis. According to tradition, in 534 or 535 BC, Thespis astounded audiences by leaping on to the back of a wooden cart and reciting poetry as if he was the characters whose lines he was reading. In doing so he became the world's first actor, and it is from him that we get the world thespian.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(LrrFZt_VOpeuwPAP6c6I2Aw__109,
Edwardian houses refer to homes built during King Edward's reign, which was from 1901 to 1910. Edwardian houses are similar to Victorian homes—which came slightly before—in some ways but are overall less ornate and more airy in design.