The Plays of Charles Dickens

Author:   Joanna Hofer-Robinson (Lecturer in nineteenth-century literature, University College Cork) ,  Pete Orford (Course Director of the MA by Research in Charles Dickens Studies, and a lecturer in English Literature, University of Buckingham)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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9781474498340


Pages:   440
Publication Date:   31 March 2025
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Author:   Joanna Hofer-Robinson (Lecturer in nineteenth-century literature, University College Cork) ,  Pete Orford (Course Director of the MA by Research in Charles Dickens Studies, and a lecturer in English Literature, University of Buckingham)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474498340


ISBN 10:   1474498345
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   31 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on the Text Introduction Suggested Further Reading The Plays The Strange Gentleman The Village Coquettes Is She His Wife? or, Something Singular The Lamplighter Mr Nightingale’s Diary The Frozen Deep No Thoroughfare Appendices I. O’Thello II. The Patrician’s Daughter (Prologue) III. The Elder Brother (Prologue) IV. Closing scene to Animal Magnetism V. The Lighthouse (Prologue) VI. The Housekeeper (Prologue) References

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Dickens was one of the most theatrical of novelists, as the editors of this splendid edition make clear, and yet his plays have been relatively disregarded. With this publication we can now, at last, give full attention to Dickens the playwright, his scripts and their textual variants, accompanied by a fresh, incisive and substantial scholarly introduction and a selection of contemporary illustrations. The editors should be rewarded in their hopes that this publication will promote new efforts to stage productions of some of these zestful plays.--Malcolm Andrews, University of Kent


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Joanna Hofer-Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the English and Comparative Literary Studies department at the University of Warwick. Her recent publications include Dickens and Demolition (2018) and Sensation Drama, 1860—1880: An Anthology (2019, co-edited with Beth Palmer), as well as articles on various aspects of nineteenth-century drama and Dickens studies. Pete Orford is Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies at the University of Buckingham, and Academic Advisor to the Charles Dickens Museum in London. His recent publications include The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens (2023) and The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens’s unfinished novel and our endless attempts to end it (2018).

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