Singing Les Roastbeef: Comic English characters at the French music hall by The British Academy published on 2018-12-07T12:03:51Z In the glory years of the Parisian ‘café-concert’ music hall, one comedy character above all others was loved by French audiences: the Englishman. Hannah Scott introduces these roast beef-scoffing, beer-quaffing figures of fun from the nineteenth century. Speaker: Dr Hannah Scott, British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, French and Francophone Studies, University of Nottingham Genre Learning