
The Plays of Charles Dickens
Edinburgh University Press
Erschienen am 31. März 2025
Buch
Hardcover
440 Seiten
978-1-4744-9834-0 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
This groundbreaking book offers the first complete scholarly edition of Dickens's dramatic works. It challenges the previous neglect of these plays, recognising that his fascination with theatre, his playwrighting, and stage management of lavish amateur productions all had a formative impact on his professional identity and literary imagination. This pioneering critical edition of seven plays, single- and co-authored by Dickens, places his theatrical writing centre stage to encourage further critical work and interest in Dickens the dramatist - and, perhaps, new productions of the plays.
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Dickens was one of the most theatrical of novelists, as the editors of this splendid edition make clear, and yet his plays have been relatively disregarded. With this publication we can now, at last, give full attention to Dickens the playwright, his scripts and their textual variants, accompanied by a fresh, incisive and substantial scholarly introduction and a selection of contemporary illustrations. The editors should be rewarded in their hopes that this publication will promote new efforts to stage productions of some of these zestful plays. -- Malcolm Andrews, University of Kent Passionate and charismatic, Dickens was well suited to the nineteenth century theatre. A skilled actor and playwright, drama informed his work and steered his life choices. In this expertly annotated volume, Hofer-Robinson and Orford bring together Dickens's dramas for the very first time, from his youthful comedies to his sensational collaborations with Wilkie Collins. This volume fills a huge gap in Dickens scholarship, simultaneously shedding light on him as both writer and performer. -- Caroline Radcliffe, University of Birmingham This expertly edited and handsomely produced volume, the first serious attempt to explore Dickens's plays, allows us to understand the signal importance of theatre to his development as a novelist, and why these experiments (not always successful) in playwrighting were central to his emergence as a genius in prose. -- John Drew, The University of BuckinghamWeitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Edinburgh
Großbritannien
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Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
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10 black and white illustrations
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
Gewicht
789 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-9834-0 (9781474498340)
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Joanna Hofer-Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the English and Comparative Literary Studies department at the University of Warwick. Her recent publications include Dickens and Demolition (2018) and Sensation Drama, 1860-1880: An Anthology (2019, co-edited with Beth Palmer), as well as articles on various aspects of nineteenth-century drama and Dickens studies. Pete Orford is Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies at the University of Buckingham, and Academic Advisor to the Charles Dickens Museum in London. His recent publications include The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens (2023) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens's unfinished novel and our endless attempts to end it (2018).
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Lecturer in nineteenth-century literatureUniversity College Cork
Course Director of the MA by Research in Charles Dickens Studies, and a lecturer in English LiteratureUniversity of Buckingham
Inhalt
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
Introduction
Suggested Further Reading
The Plays
The Strange Gentleman
The Village Coquettes
Is She His Wife? or, Something Singular
The Lamplighter
Mr Nightingale's Diary
The Frozen Deep
No Thoroughfare
Appendices
I. O'Thello
II. The Patrician's Daughter (Prologue)
III. The Elder Brother (Prologue)
IV. Closing scene to Animal Magnetism
V. The Lighthouse (Prologue)
VI. The Housekeeper (Prologue)
References
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
Introduction
Suggested Further Reading
The Plays
The Strange Gentleman
The Village Coquettes
Is She His Wife? or, Something Singular
The Lamplighter
Mr Nightingale's Diary
The Frozen Deep
No Thoroughfare
Appendices
I. O'Thello
II. The Patrician's Daughter (Prologue)
III. The Elder Brother (Prologue)
IV. Closing scene to Animal Magnetism
V. The Lighthouse (Prologue)
VI. The Housekeeper (Prologue)
References