Victorian writers and the stage : the plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson

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The work Victorian writers and the stage : the plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Victorian writers and the stage : the plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson

Title remainder

the plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson

Statement of responsibility

Richard Pearson, Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Creator

• Pearson, Richard, 1964-

Author

• Pearson, Richard, 1964-

Subject

• English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Theater -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Theater and society -- England -- History -- 19th century
• 1800 - 1899
• England

Language

eng

Summary

"This book comprises a study of the plays of Dickens, Browning, Wilkie Collins and Tennyson, alongside the fiction and periodical writings of Thackeray and others. These major Victorian writers authored several professional plays, but why has their achievement been overlooked? Victorian Writers and the Stage brings together comprehensively, for the first time, the professionally performed plays of a group of well-known authors - some of which plays enjoyed long and successful seasons, but all of which have been largely forgotten. The author examines the goal of these writers to become part of an expanding theatrical industry and the problems they encountered in risking their reputations on a literature felt by many to be vulgar and illegitimate. A wealth of new detail carefully positions the plays within the context of the changing Victorian theatre industry and the great battle between the Major and Minor theatres for the future of the modern stage"--

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Springer
• Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UKPGM

Dewey number

822/.809

Index

index present

LC call number

PR731

LC item number

.P415 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture