Chartist drama

Herausgeber: Vargo, Gregory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume opens a window onto a unique culture of politicised working-class drama by offering four plays that highlight the diversity of Chartist performance: a verse tragedy concerning the Newport rising; a Gothic melodrama; a frequently reenacted treason trial; and a Romantic-era history play.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781526142061
• ISBN-10: 1526142066
• Artikelnr.: 59364134

Autorenporträt

Gregory Vargo is Associate Professor of English at New York University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Chartism from Shakespeare' and Shakespeare from Chartism 1
Wat Tyler (1794/1817) - Robert Southey 2 John Frost (1841) - John Watkins 3
The Trial of Robert Emmet (1841?) 4 St. John's Eve (1848) - Ernest Jones
Appendix 1: Chartist dramatic performances Appendix 2: Newport sonnets
Appendix 3: Passages omitted in Cleave's trial version as they appear in
Cleave's source, The Life, Trial and Conversations of Robert Emmet, Esq.,
Leader of the Irish Insurrection of 1803: Also, the celebrated speech made
by him on that occasion (Manchester: John Doherty, 1836). Appendix 4:
Advertising placard for a performance of The Trial of Robert Emmett Index