By: Ardis E. Parshall - July 30, 2012 During much of the 19th century, “infant” or “juvenile” troupes of stage performers were a popular form of entertainment. Traveling from town to town, the children in these troupes sang and danced and recited and acted. Most were children, although managers were not above prolonging the pretended childhoods of their players as long as was feasible – or beyond (Dickens satirizes this in...
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