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Dickensian Dramas
Jacky Bratton
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Description for Dickensian Dramas
Hardcover. This book presents fully edited texts of dramatizations of Dickens's early novels-especially his Christmas books, which were staged in London simultaneously with publication. The edition makes available, for the first time, this exciting body of translations to the stage made by the first generation of Dickensian adaptors. Editor(s): Bratton, Jacky. Num Pages: 480 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Dickens loved the stage--he enjoyed thousands of evenings in the theatre, and longed to write for it and to perform himself, an ambition that he eventually satisfied by touring alone with his Readings. Victorian prejudice and his need to preserve his personal image kept him from openly becoming a stage professional earlier in his career, but all his work was informed by his dramatic imagination. He found ways of circumventing these taboos by seeking closer and closer contact over the staging of his work with dramatic writers, admired actors, and trusted theatre managements. This book presents, for the first time, ... Read more
Dickens loved the stage--he enjoyed thousands of evenings in the theatre, and longed to write for it and to perform himself, an ambition that he eventually satisfied by touring alone with his Readings. Victorian prejudice and his need to preserve his personal image kept him from openly becoming a stage professional earlier in his career, but all his work was informed by his dramatic imagination. He found ways of circumventing these taboos by seeking closer and closer contact over the staging of his work with dramatic writers, admired actors, and trusted theatre managements. This book presents, for the first time, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198787952
SKU
V9780198787952
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About Jacky Bratton
Graduating from St Anne's Oxford in 1969, Jacky Bratton became a member of the English Department at Bedford College London and later Head of Drama at Royal Holloway. She works on the performance cultures of 19th-century Britain, specialising in the popular, the demotic and the hidden or disregarded work of women. In this century she has been engaged with performance ... Read more
Reviews for Dickensian Dramas
Together the two volumes provide access to many valuable sources for Dickensian research. The set will interest both literary scholars and stage historians. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.
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[A] superb edition of Dickensian adaptations.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Times Literary Supplement
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[A] superb edition of Dickensian adaptations.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Times Literary Supplement