After Dickens : reading, adaptation and performance / / John Glavin [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Glavin John
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823/.8
• Soggetto topico: Performing arts - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Performing arts in literature; Stage adaptations
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Set up. ; 1. Dickens, adaptation and Grotowski. ; 2. ... as upon a theatre -- ; pt. II. Flashback. ; 3. ... to be a Shakespeare. ; 4. Exit: "the sanguine mirage" -- ; pt. III. Resolution. ; 5. How to do it. ; 6. Coda.
• Sommario/riassunto: After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relationship to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and uncovers a much more ambivalent, often hostile, relationship than has hitherto been noticed. In this context, Dickens's novels can be seen as a form of counter-performance, one which would allow the author to perform without being seen or scrutinized. But Glavin also identifies a rich performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations. The book as a whole, therefore, offers a reading of Dickens through an unusual alliance between literary criticism and theatrical performance.
• Titolo autorizzato: After Dickens
• ISBN: 1-107-11588-4; 0-521-03237-7; 1-280-16190-6; 0-511-11713-2; 0-511-14943-3; 0-511-30966-X; 0-511-48481-X; 0-511-05121-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455356503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 20.