After Dickens - Reading, Adaptation and Performance

Informationen zum Autor fm.author_biographical_note1 Klappentext A study of Dickens's hostility to theatre and theatricality alongside the huge performative potential of his fiction. Zusammenfassung John Glavin uncovers a richly ambivalent! often unexpectedly hostile! relationship between Dickens and the theatre and theatricality of his own time. Yet he also explores the performative potential in Dickens's fiction! and describes ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful! critically acute adaptations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Introduction; Part I. Set Up: 1. Dickens, adaptation and Grotowski; 2. ... as upon a theatre; Part II. Flashback: 3. ... to be a Shakespeare; 4. Exit: 'the sanguine mirage'; Part III. Resolution: 5. How to do it; 6. Coda; Notes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John Glavin, Professor John Glavin
• Assisted by: Gillian Beer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.1999
• EAN: 9780521633222
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63322-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies