Victorian Time Travel

EP. 1 Sa’ey, tha’s foanny! Madame Butterfly’s accent in David Belasco’s tragedy


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In April 1900, David Belasco opened his one-act play Madame Butterfly at the Duke of York theatre in London. In this episode, we try to get a feel for what it would be like to attend this performance, how the actors might have looked and sounded, and speculate about the whys of this enduringly popular story.


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Victorian Time TravelBy Emi Del Bene