Dickensian Dramas : Plays from Charles Dickens
- Submitting institution
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The University of Warwick
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 10618
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198787969
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Jim Davis was sole editor of this volume. He was responsible for the Introduction (@12,000 words), the selection of the seven adaptations to be published in this volume, the short introductions to each play (@1,000 words per play), all editorial choices relating to each play and the extensive footnoting, often highlighting textual variations between different printed and manuscript versions of the plays. He also selected the illustrations to accompany the texts.
In conjunction with Volume 1, edited by Jacky Bratton, this volume argues, both through its introduction and the dramatizations included, for Dicken’s centrality to the Victorian theatre. As well as plays Dickens discretely helped to stage, the volume also includes adaptations by well-known contemporary dramatists and adaptations which, in some cases, were notable for outstanding performances by contemporary actors. Consequently, this is not just an ad hoc collection of plays, but a carefully selected group of works aimed at establishing the significance of Dickens’s contribution to nineteenth-century theatre and drama and the need for his inclusion in theatre histories of the period.
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- Non-English
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