The Plays of Charles Dickens

Joanna Hofer-Robinson, Pete Orford (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

440 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9834-0 (ISBN)

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The first critical edition to collect Dickens’s dramatic works, enriched with thorough scholarly notes that foreground primary archival research.

This groundbreaking book offers the first complete scholarly edition of Dickens’s dramatic works. It challenges the previous neglect of these plays, recognising that his fascination with theatre, his playwrighting, and stage management of lavish amateur productions all had a formative impact on his professional identity and literary imagination. This pioneering critical edition of seven plays, single- and co-authored by Dickens, places his theatrical writing centre stage to encourage further critical work and interest in Dickens the dramatist – and, perhaps, new productions of the plays.

Joanna Hofer-Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the English and Comparative Literary Studies department at the University of Warwick. Her recent publications include Dickens and Demolition (2018) and Sensation Drama, 1860—1880: An Anthology (2019, co-edited with Beth Palmer), as well as articles on various aspects of nineteenth-century drama and Dickens studies. Pete Orford is Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies at the University of Buckingham, and Academic Advisor to the Charles Dickens Museum in London. His recent publications include The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens (2023) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens’s unfinished novel and our endless attempts to end it (2018).

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text

Introduction

Suggested Further Reading

The Plays
The Strange Gentleman
The Village Coquettes
Is She His Wife? or, Something Singular
The Lamplighter
Mr Nightingale’s Diary
The Frozen Deep
No Thoroughfare

Appendices

I. O’Thello
II. The Patrician’s Daughter (Prologue)
III. The Elder Brother (Prologue)
IV. Closing scene to Animal Magnetism
V. The Lighthouse (Prologue)
VI. The Housekeeper (Prologue)

References

Erscheinungsdatum	04.03.2025
Zusatzinfo	10 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-9834-5 / 1474498345
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-9834-0 / 9781474498340
Zustand	Neuware