Dickens-to-Go: Race, Power, and Performance in 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'
Channel: The Dickens Project
Date: 2020-07-27

Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, the William E. "Bud" Davis Alumni Professor of English at Louisiana State University, uses the occasion of a performance to describe the complex power dynamics where "hierarchies of race, gender, pedagogy, performance, and sexual attraction" are at play in 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood.'