02205nam 2200433 450 991048070210332120201001071431.01-5261-4207-4(CKB)4100000011287939(OCoLC)1175275032(MdBmJHUP)muse82633(MiAaPQ)EBC6224980(EXLCZ)99410000001128793920201001d2020 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChartist drama /edited by Gregory VargoManchester :Manchester University Press,[2020]©20201 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : illustrations1-5261-4206-6 Includes bibliographical references.Wat Tyler (1794/1817)--Robert Southey -- John Frost (1841)--John Watkins -- The Trial of Robert Emmet (1841) -- St. John's Eve (1848)--Ernest Jones.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.Political plays, EnglishElectronic books.Political plays, English.822.912080358Vargo GregoryMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910480702103321Chartist drama2173265UNINA