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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480702103321

Titolo

Chartist drama / / edited by Gregory Vargo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-5261-4207-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : : illustrations

Disciplina

822.912080358

Soggetti

Political plays, English

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Wat Tyler (1794/1817)--Robert Southey -- John Frost (1841)--John Watkins -- The Trial of Robert Emmet (1841) -- St. John's Eve (1848)--Ernest Jones.

Sommario/riassunto

The first collection of its kind, Chartist Drama makes available four plays written or performed by members of the Chartist movement of the 1840s. Emerging from the lively counter-culture of this protest campaign for democratic rights, these plays challenged cultural as well as political hierarchies by adapting such recognisable genres as melodrama, history plays, and tragedy for performance in radically new settings. They include poet-activist John Watkins's John Frost, which dramatises the gripping events of the Newport rising, in which twenty-two Chartists lost their lives in what was probably a misfired attempt to spark a nationwide rebellion. Gregory Vargo's introduction and notes elucidate the previously unexplored world of Chartist dramatic culture, a context that promises to reshape what we know about early Victorian popular politics and theatre.