Book1914
Vaudeville
Caroline Caffin
Treats vaudeville's mix of magicians, acrobats and comic turns as a coherent art of variety rather than a lesser form of theatre, cataloguing what made each kind of act actually work.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Performing Arts · Circus, Magic & Variety
Foundations & Overviews
A topic within Circus, Magic & Variety, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
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Book1876
Modern Magic
Professor Hoffmann
Sets out conjuring as a craft of misdirection and rehearsed handling rather than apparatus, and is the manual that turned magic from trade secret into a teachable discipline.
link checked 17 Sept 2026FreeIntermediate