UID:
almahu_9949385829002882
Format:
1 online resource (l, 1174 pages)
Edition:
1st edition.
ISBN:
9781315530130
,
1315530139
,
9781315530123
,
1315530120
,
9781000808353
,
1000808351
Content:
During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres. These plays mixed sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However, generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama, with the possible exception of plays by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, remains all but invisible. Until recently, melodramatic plays written and performed during this "gap" received little scholarly attention, but their value as reflections of Britain's promulgation of imperial ideology -- and its role in constructing and maintaining class, gender, and racial identities -- have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum.The plays included in these three volumes have never appeared in a critical anthology and most have not been republished since their original nineteenth-century editions. Each play is transcribed from original documents and includes an author biography, a headnote about the play itself, full annotations with brief definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary, and explanatory notes. Comprehensive editorial apparatus details the nineteenth-century imperial, naval, political, and social history relevant to the plays' nautical themes, as well as discussing nineteenth-century theatre history, melodrama generally, and the nautical melodrama in particular. Contemporary theatre practices -- acting, audiences, staging, lighting, special effects -- are also examined. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary texts; a complete index; and contemporary images of the actors, theatres, stage sets, playbills, costumes, and locales have been compiled to aid study further.
Note:
Volume IAcknowledgementsChronologyList of ThemesList of IllustrationsEditorial ProcedureGeneral IntroductionAppendices Introduction to Andrew L.V. CampbellCampbell. Bound 'Prentice to a WatermanCampbell.Britannia, or, the Female SacrificeIntroductionto Thomas DibdinDibdin. The PirateIntroductionto Edward FitzballFitzball. The Floating BeaconFitzball. The Flying Dutchman, or, The Phantom ShipFitzball.Nelson, or, Britannia Rules the WavesFitzball. The PilotFitzball. Tom Cringle, or, Mat of the Iron HandVolume IIIntroduction to John Thomas HainesHaines. Breakers AheadHaines. My Poll and My Partner JoeHaines. The Ocean of Life, or Every Inch a SailorHaines. Rattlin the Reefer, or, the Tiger of the SeaHaines. The Wizard of the Wave, or, the Ship of the AvengerIntroduction to Douglas William JerroldJerrold. Descart, the French BuccaneerJerrold. The Mutiny at the NoreJerrold. Black Eye'd SusanVolume IIIIntroduction to William Thomas MoncrieffMoncrieff. Shipwreck of the Medusa; or, the Fatal RaftIntroduction to W.H. Oxbury & J. GannOxbury & Gann. Midshipman EasyIntroduction to Isaac PocockPocock. Robinson Crusoe and the Bold BuccaneersIntroduction toCharles SomersetSomerset. The Fall of Algiers, By Sea and LandSomerset. The Sea Introduction to Edward StirlingStirling. The Cabin BoyIntroduction to Thomas James ThackerayThackeray. Penmark AbbeyIntroduction to T.E. WilksWilks. Ben the Boatswain
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Drama.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315530130
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315530130
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