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04033aam a2200553 i 4500 001 DACCC518ECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150304s2015 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015004271 020 $a 1137504676 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137504678 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)904801129 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d CDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d COO $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d CUD $d STF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR731 $b .P415 2015 082 00 $a 822/.809 $2 23 084 $a LIT013000 $a LIT004120 $a LIT013000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Pearson, Richard, $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Victorian writers and the stage : $b the plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson / $c Richard Pearson, Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a xii, 249 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture 520 $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 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: legitimacy and playwriting -- Part I: Comedy and Tragedy, Before the Theatres Act of 1843 -- Farce, family and the minor theatres: Dickens as a legitimate playwright -- Text and Performance: Robert Browning and the struggle of the dramtiic author -- Part II: Collaborations at Mid-Century, 1845-1868 -- The novelist at the stage door: Dickens' and Thackerary's dialogue with the theatre -- Dramatic collaboration: Dickens' and Collins'melodramas -- Part III: Dramatic Identities, 1870-1883 -- Adapting to the state: Wilkie Collins and the double text -- Cometh the hero? Alfred Lord Tennyson as a nation's playwright. 650 0 $a English drama $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Theater $z England $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z England $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Theater and society $z England $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a English drama. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910737 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Theater. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149217 650 7 $a Theater and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149315 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 650 7 $a Englisch. $0 (DE-588)4014777-0 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Drama. $0 (DE-588)4012899-4 $2 gnd 648 7 $a 1800 - 1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021013124.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826114338.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DACCC518ECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search