Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian gothic stage / Catherine Wynne, University of Hull, UK.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Wynne, Catherine, 1971-

Series:

• Palgrave gothic series
• Palgrave gothic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912--Criticism and interpretation.
• Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912--Knowledge and learning--Theater.
• Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912.
• Theater.
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.
• English drama--19th century--History and criticism.
• English drama.
• Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.
• Gothic revival (Literature).
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.
• Criticism and interpretation.
• Great Britain.
• Theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.
• History.

Physical Description:

ix, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Bram Stoker worked in the theatre for most of his adult life, as theatre reviewer in Dublin in the 1870s and as business manager at London's Royal Lyceum Theatre in the final two decades of the nineteenth century. Despite this, critical attention to the influence of the stage on Stoker's writing has been sparse. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage addresses this lacuna, examining how Stoker's fictions respond to and engage with the late nineteenth-century theatrical climate and, in particular, to the supernatural plays, Gothic melodramas and Shakespearean productions that Henry Irving and Ellen Terry performed at the Lyceum. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage locates the writer between stage and page. It reconsiders his literary relationships with key actors, and challenges the biographical assumption that Henry Irving provided the model for the figure of Count Dracula. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Introduction: setting the scene
• Stoker, melodrama and the gothic
• Irving's tempters and Stoker's vanishing ladies: supernatural production, mesmeric influence and magical illusion
• Ellen Terry and the "bloofer lady": femininity and fallenness
• Gothic weddings and performing vampires: Geneviève Ward and The lady of the shroud
• The Lyceum's Macbeth and Stoker's Dracula
• Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781137298980
• 1137298987

OCLC:

829386979