LEADER 02205nam 2200433 450 001 9910480702103321 005 20201001071431.0 010 $a1-5261-4207-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011287939 035 $a(OCoLC)1175275032 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse82633 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224980 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011287939 100 $a20201001d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aChartist drama /$fedited by Gregory Vargo 210 1$aManchester :$cManchester University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : $cillustrations 311 $a1-5261-4206-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aWat Tyler (1794/1817)--Robert Southey -- John Frost (1841)--John Watkins -- The Trial of Robert Emmet (1841) -- St. John's Eve (1848)--Ernest Jones. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aPolitical plays, English 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical plays, English. 676 $a822.912080358 702 $aVargo$b Gregory 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480702103321 996 $aChartist drama$92173265 997 $aUNINA