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Victorian Writers and the Stage R. Pearson

Victorian Writers and the Stage By R. Pearson

Victorian Writers and the Stage by R. Pearson

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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?

Victorian Writers and the Stage Summary

Victorian Writers and the Stage: The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson by R. Pearson

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?

Victorian Writers and the Stage Reviews

Pearson's work makes significant contributions to the study of each of its four central authors and connects in interesting ways with work undertaken on female authorship and the stage in relation to writers like Charlotte Bronte and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Victorian Writers and the Stage is a valuable and highly insightful monograph that traverses literary and theatrical history with ease. (Beth Palmer, English Studies, Vol. 98 (2), 2017)

About R. Pearson

Richard Pearson lectures at the National University of Ireland Galway and was previously Head of Arts and Humanities at the University of Worcester. He is the director of an AHRC-funded digital archive, The Victorian Plays Project. His publications include W.M. Thackeray and the Mediated Text, The Victorians and the Ancient World, and The Index of English Literary Manuscripts.

Table of Contents

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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NLS9781349700332
9781349700332
1349700339
Victorian Writers and the Stage: The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson by R. Pearson
R. Pearson
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
New
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Palgrave Macmillan
2018-12-19
249
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