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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearson, R., Author.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture, 2634-6508

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction.

Poetry.

Theater--History.

Theater.

European literature.

Fiction Literature.

Poetry and Poetics.

Theatre History.

European Literature.

Local Subjects:

Fiction Literature.

Poetry and Poetics.

Theatre History.

European Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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?

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781349700332

1349700339