A Tale of Mystery (1802) / Thomas Holcroft -- Faust (Part I, 1808; Part II, 1831) / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Bertram; or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand (1816) / Robert Charles Maturin -- The Cenci (1819) / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles (1820) / James Robinson Planché -- Cain (1821) / Lord Byron -- Ali Pacha; or, The Signet-Ring (1823) / John Howard Payne -- Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein (1823) / Richard Brinsley Peake -- Luke The Labourer; or, The Lost Son (1826) / John Baldwin Buckstone -- Black-Ey'd Susan (1829) / Douglas Jerrold -- Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags (1829) / John Augustus Stone -- Hernani (1830) / Victor Hugo -- The Tower (1832) / Alexandre Dumas, père -- Lucretia Borgia (1833) / Victor Hugo -- Jonathan Bradford; or, The Murder at the Roadside Inn (1833) / Edward Fitzball -- The Inspector General (1836) / Nikolai Gogol -- Woyzeck (c. 1836) / Georg Büchner -- Ruy Blas (1838) / Victor Hugo -- Vautrin (1840) / Honoré de Balzac -- Maria Marten; or, The Murder in the Red Barn (c. 1842) / Anonymous -- The Mysteries of Paris (1843) / Eugène Sue -- The String of Pearls; or, The Fiend of Fleet Street (1847) / George Dibdin Pitt -- Jane Eyre (1849) / John Brougham -- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) / George L. Aiken -- The Courier of Lyons (1854) / Charles Reade -- Francesca da Rimini (1855) / George Henry Boker -- The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana (1859) / Dion Boucicault -- East Lynne (1862) / Clifton W. Tayleure -- Lady Audley's Secret (1863) / Colin Henry Hazlewood -- The Ticket-of-Leave Man (1863) / Tom Taylor -- The Black Crook (1866) / Charles M. Barras -- Under the Gaslight (1867) / Augustin Daly -- No Thoroughfare (1867) / Charles Dickens -- The Woman in White (1871) / Wilkie Collins -- The Bells (1871) / Leopold Lewis -- Thérèse Raquin (1873) / Émile Zola -- Miss Gwilt (1875) / Wilkie Collins -- The Moonstone (1877) / Wilkie Collins -- The Silver King (1882) / Henry Arthur Jones and Henry Herman -- An Enemy of the People (1883) / Henrik Ibsen -- The Power of Darkness (1886) / Leo Tolstoy -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887) / Thomas Russell Sullivan -- La Tosca (1887) / Victorien Sardou -- Robin Hood (1890) / Music by Reginald De Koven ; Libretto by Harry B. Smith -- Angels of Darkness (c. 1890) / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Leavenworth Case (1891) / Anna Katharine Green -- A Florentine Tragedy (1893) / Oscar Wilde -- Under the Clock (1893) / Charles H.E. Brookfield and Edward Seymour Hicks -- Dracula; or, The Un-Dead (1897) / Bram Stoker -- The Grand Guignol -- Sherlock Holmes (1899) / William Gillette -- Appendix A : Lethal Poison -- Appendix B : Trial plays of the nineteenth century -- Appendix C : Classic revenge tragedies -- Appendix D : Arden of Faversham -- Appendix E : The witches of John Masefield and Arthur Miller -- Appendix F : Modern versions of Jane Eyre.
Summary:
"The history of theater is rife with tales of crime, suspense, and murder. The nineteenth century was no exception. Notable hallmarks of transgression drama during this century included the introduction of the melodrama, the first American musical, the debut of stage detectives, and the emergence of several hit plays focusing on real-life murderers (including the infamous Sweeney Todd). In Blood on the Stage, 1800 to 1900: Milestone Plays of Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem, Amnon Kabatchnik completes his seven-volume exploration of theater's darkest works with an overview of more than fifty blood-splattered plays of the nineteenth century. Among the plays discussed here are many literary adaptations, including theatrical versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin, East Lynne, Lady Audley's Secret, The Woman in White, Frankenstein, and several featuring Sherlock Holmes appearances. Many of the era's most notable playwrights are represented here, including Émile Zola, Honoré de Balzac, Wilkie Collins, Anna Katharine Green, and William Gillette, as well as plays by authors better known for their other works, including Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Père, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, and Robert Louis Stevenson. This volume cites works by writers from all over the world, including England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Russia, Norway, and the United States. Each entry is presented chronologically and includes plot synopsis, production data, opinions by critics and scholars, and biographical sketches of playwrights and key actors. Blood on the Stage, 1800 to 1900 will be of interest to theater scholars, researchers, and theater lovers alike." -- Publisher's description
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