Dramatic Dickens
| Author | : Carol H MacKay |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1989-05-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1349198862 |
Dramatic Dickens
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Dickens, Novel Reading, and the Victorian Popular Theatre
| Author | : Deborah Vlock |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 1998-12-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521640848 |
Dickens' novels, like those of his contemporaries, are more explicitly indebted to the theatre than scholars have supposed: his stories and characters were often already public property by the time they were published, circulating as part of a current theatrical repertoire well known to many Victorian readers. In this 1998 study, Deborah Vlock argues that novels - and novel-readers - were in effect created by the popular theatre in the nineteenth century, and that the possibility of reading and writing narrative was conditioned by the culture of the stage. Vlock resuscitates the long-dead voices of Dickens' theatrical sources, which now only tentatively inhabit reviews, scripts, fiction and non-fiction narratives, but which were everywhere in Dickens' time: voices of noted actors and actresses and of popular theatrical characters. She uncovers unexpected precursors for some popular Dickensian characters, and reconstructs the conditions in which Dickens' novels were initially received.
Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
| Author | : Simon Callow |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2012-08-07 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0345803248 |
A short biography of Charles Dickens by acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow that offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language in a lively, highly readable account. "It has all the gusto that a popular biography of Dickens—a man who “could do nothing by halves”—should possess. . . . The best biography for Dickens newcomers and a wonderful read for all."—Library Journal Dickens was one of the first true celebrity authors. Thousands of fans in Britain and America eagerly awaited each new installment of his stories and flocked to see him on his legendary speaking tours. Not only did he create an incredible cast of characters on the page, but he was also a dazzling mimic and storyteller, and he wrote, stage-managed, and acted in plays for the public. Throughout his life, from his childhood performances in pubs to his legendarily powerful reading tours, Dickens was fanatical about the stage. Callow reveals Dickens’s genius on and off the page and offers a compelling insight into a life that was driven as much by performance and showmanship as by literature.
Short Plays from Dickens for the Use of Amateur and School Dramatic Societies
| Author | : Charles Dickens |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 1908 |
| Genre | : Amateur plays |
| ISBN | : |
Dickens's Villains
| Author | : Juliet John |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780199261376 |
This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing.
Dramatic Dickens
| Author | : Carol Hanbery MacKay |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780312026929 |
Dickens Adapted
| Author | : John Glavin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 613 |
| Release | : 2017-03-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351944568 |
From their first appearance in print, Dickens's fictions immediately migrated into other media, and particularly, in his own time, to the stage. Since then Dickens has continuously, apparently inexhaustibly, functioned as the wellspring for a robust mini-industry, sourcing plays, films, television specials and series, operas, new novels and even miniature and model villages. If in his lifetime he was justly called 'The Inimitable', since his death he has become just the reverse: the Infinitely Imitable. The essays in this volume, all appearing within the past twenty years, cover the full spectrum of genres. Their major shared claim to attention is their break from earlier mimetic criteria - does the film follow the novel? - to take the new works seriously within their own generic and historical contexts. Collectively, they reveal an entirely 'other' Dickensian oeuvre, which ironically has perhaps made Dickens better known to an audience of non-readers than to those who know the books themselves.
Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts
| Author | : Claire Wood |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 572 |
| Release | : 2024-05-31 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 1474441653 |
The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens's rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the arts overall. This volume reassesses Dickens's prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the arts. Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.
Short Plays From Dickens
| Author | : Charles Dickens |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2008-10 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9781437079814 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Global Dickens
| Author | : Nirshan Perera |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 559 |
| Release | : 2017-03-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351933523 |
This volume of essays provides a selection of leading contemporary scholarship which situates Dickens in a global perspective. The articles address four main areas: Dickens's reception outside Britain and North America; his intertextual relations with and influence upon writers from different parts of the world; Dickens as traveller; and the presence throughout his fiction and journalism of subjects, such as race and empire, that extend beyond the national contexts in which his work is usually considered. Written by leading researchers from diverse countries and cultures, this is an indispensable reference work in the field of Dickens studies.
