later-victorian

Updated: January 19, 2026

We visited the State Theatre, where Wagnerian opera still holds the patient ear, and there we heard, not Wagner, but Shakespeare's "Lear," done in a jog-trot, uninspired, later-Victorian style. One felt as if the theatre had slept for thirty years and then, awakening, had resumed in the same style as before.

Stephen Graham - Europe—Whither Bound?: Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921