Dickensian Dramas, Volume 2

Plays from Charles Dickens
Herausgeber: Davis, Jim

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents fully edited texts of a selection of dramatizations of Dickens's novels, adapted for the stage in the later stages of his career. It makes available, for the first time, this exciting body of translations to the stage, from Dion Boucicault's version of The Cricket on the Hearth to J. P. Burnett's adaptation of Bleak House.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780198787969
• ISBN-10: 0198787960
• Artikelnr.: 48746973

Autorenporträt

Jim Davis is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick.

Inhaltsangabe

* Tom Taylor
A Tale of Two Cities
Lyceum Theatre
January 1860 * Dion Boucicault
Dot
Adelphi Theatre
April 1862 (New York
1859) * Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens
No Thoroughfare
Adelphi Theatre
December 1867 * John Hollingshead
Bardell v. Pickwick
Gaiety Theatre
January 1871 * W. S. Gilbert
Great Expectations
Court Theatre
May 1871 * J. P. Burnett
Jo
or Bleak House
Globe Theatre
February 1876 (Liverpool
1875) * James Albery
Jingle
Lyceum Theatre
April 1887