Toward a historiography of stage conjuring: are we entering a golden age?

Matthew Solomon · Joe Culpepper

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In his 1906 book The Old and the New Magic, magic historian Henry Ridgely Evans (1861–1949) wrote, ‘Alas, the golden age of wizardry has passed’ (1906, 315). For him, as for other magicians at the ...

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