Victorian Writers and the Stage [electronic resource] : The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson /
Pearson, R.author.
This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights. These major Victorian writers each authored several professional plays, but why has their achievement been overlooked?
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights. These major Victorian writers each authored several professional plays, but why has their achievement been overlooked?
Machine generated contents note: -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction: Legitimacy and Playwriting -- PART I: COMEDY AND TRAGEDY, BEFORE THE THEATRES ACT OF 1843 -- 1. Farce, Family and the Minor Theatres: Dickens as a Legitimate Playwright -- 2. Text and Performance: Robert Browning and the Struggle of the Dramatic Author -- PART II: COLLABORATIONS AT MID-CENTURY, 1845-1868 -- 3. The Novelist at the Stage Door: Dickens' and Thackeray's Dialogue with the Theatre -- 4. Dramatic Collaboration: Dickens' and Collins' Melodramas -- PART III: DRAMATIC IDENTITIES, 1870-1883 -- 5. Adapting to the Stage: Wilkie Collins and the Double Text -- 6. Cometh the Hero? Alfred Lord Tennyson as the Nation's Playwright -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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Theater—History.
British literature.
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Poetry and Poetics.
Theatre History.
British and Irish Literature.