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  1. Victorian writers and the stage
    the plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    TU Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek - Stadtmitte
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781137504678
    RVK Categories: HL 1261
    Series: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
    Subjects: Drama
    Other subjects: Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Collins, Wilkie (1824-1889); Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)
    Scope: XII, 249 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 232 - 238

  2. Victorian writers and the stage
    the plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
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  3. Victorian writers and the stage
    the plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson
    Published: c 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    "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... more

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    "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"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1137504676; 9781137504678
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    978113750467890101
    RVK Categories: HL 1261 ; HL 1220
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
    Subjects: English drama; Theater; Literature and society; Theater and society
    Scope: XII, 249 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 232 - 238

    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.

  4. Victorian writers and the stage
    the plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1137504676; 9781137504678
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
    Subjects: Englisch; Drama; Geschichte 1837-1901; ; Dickens, Charles; Browning, Robert; Collins, Wilkie; Tennyson, Alfred;
    Scope: XI, 249 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 232 - 238

  5. Victorian writers and the stage
    the plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson
    Published: c 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    "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... more

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2015 A 8245
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    2015-2461
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    "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"--

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1137504676; 9781137504678
    Other identifier:
    978113750467890101
    RVK Categories: HL 1261 ; HL 1220
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
    Subjects: English drama; Theater; Literature and society; Theater and society
    Scope: XII, 249 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 232 - 238

    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.

  6. Victorian Writers and the Stage
    The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson
    Author: Pearson, R.
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

    Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction: legitimacy and playwriting -- The Theatres Royal -- The National Standard and the theatre debates -- Part I: Comedy and Tragedy, Before the Theatres Act of 1843... more

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    Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction: legitimacy and playwriting -- The Theatres Royal -- The National Standard and the theatre debates -- Part I: Comedy and Tragedy, Before the Theatres Act of 1843 -- 1 Farce, family and the minor theatres: Dickens as a legitimate playwright -- The Tottenham-street Theatre -- The St. James's Theatre -- Dickens' plays -- The Lamplighter -- Nicholas Nickleby -- 2 Text and Performance: Robert Browning and the struggle of the dramatic author -- The published playwright -- The production of Strafford Literary contexts for Strafford -- Strafford and the playwright -- Staging A Blot in the 'Scutcheon -- Reading the Blot -- The benefit of Colombe's Birthday -- Part II: Collaborations at Mid-Century, 1845-1868 -- 3 The novelist at the stage door: Dickens' and Thackeray's dialogue with the theatre -- Popular drama and fiction: Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations -- Domestic dramas: Thackeray's Vanity Fair -- The playwright and The Virginians -- 4 Dramatic collaboration: Dickens' and Collins' melodramas -- The Frozen Deep -- No Thoroughfare Part III: Dramatic Identities, 1870-1883 -- 5 Adapting to the stage: Wilkie Collins and the double text -- The Woman in White -- Twin sisters: Man and Wife and The New Magdalen -- Adaptation: Miss Gwilt and The Moonstone -- 6 Cometh the hero? Alfred Lord Tennyson as the nation's playwright -- Other people stage Tennyson -- Filling in the gap(s) of Shakespeare -- The Promise of Queen Mary -- Staying on the page: Harold and Becket -- Exquisite stages: The Falcon and The Cup -- Lear as melodrama: The Promise of May -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781137504678
    Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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