Jekyll and Hyde Adapted - Dramatizations of Cultural Anxiety

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Tracer Text, Culture-Text and the Uses of Adaptation
From Allegory to Domestic Melodrama, 1887 to 1920
From Domestic to Psychological Melodrama, 1932 to 1948
Towards a Paratradegy of Violence, 1955 to 1990
The Activity of Serial Adaptation
Select Bibliography
Index

About the author

BRIAN A. ROSE divides his time between the academy and the professional world of performance. Former editor of the journal Theatre Studies, he currently teaches at Queens College of the City University of New York.

Product details

• Authors: Brian A. Rose, Rose Brian A.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.1996
• EAN: 9780313297212
• ISBN: 978-0-313-29721-2
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Cultural Studies, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, The Arts: Drama