Full Description
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.
Contents
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)
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