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- Description
- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 386 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- This pioneering edition provides access to some of the most popular plays of the nineteenth century. Characterised by exhilarating plots, large-scale special effects and often transgressive characterisation, these dramas are still exciting for modern readers. This anthology lays the foundation for further scholarly work on sensation drama and focuses public attention on to this influential and immensely popular genre. It features five plays from writers including Dion Boucicault and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. These are supported by a substantial critical apparatus, which adds further value to the anthology by providing rich details on performance history and textual variants. The critical introduction situates the genre in its cultural context and argues for the significance of sensation drama to shifting theatrical cultures and practices.
- Series Statement
- Edinburgh critical editions of nineteenth-century texts
- Uniform Title
- Sensation drama, 1860-1880 (Online)
- Edinburgh critical editions of nineteenth-century texts.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Never too late to mend / by C.H. Hazlewood (1859) -- The Colleen Bawn / by Dion Boucicault (1860) -- Under the gaslight / by Augustin Daly (1867) -- Miss Chester / by Florence Marryat and Charles Young (1872) -- The missing witness / by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1874).
- LCCN
- 2019299852
- OCLC
- ssj0002404946
- Title
Sensation drama, 1860-1880 [electronic resource] : an anthology / edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Beth Palmer.
- Imprint
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
- Series
Edinburgh critical editions of nineteenth-century texts
Edinburgh critical editions of nineteenth-century texts.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1800-1899
- Added Author
Hofer-Robinson, Joanna.
Palmer, Beth, 1982-