Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 by Camden, Jennifer; DeLucia, JoEllen;

Short description:

The fourth volume of Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 reprints Gothic plays that foreground the complex relationship between print and performance and the role of theatre in the development of Gothic conventions.

Long description:

The fourth volume of Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 reprints Gothic plays that foreground the complex relationship between print and performance and the role of theatre in the development of Gothic conventions. Gothic dramas helped consolidate the Gothic tradition, keeping Gothic fiction from the late eighteenth century alive in an alternate form and extending the Gothic canon in new directions through the spectacular stage effects demanded by the nineteenth-century theatre. Novels that in the late eighteenth century were shocking reappeared later in the nineteenth-century theatre as parodies, poking fun at what was once considered terrifying. Toy theatres gave domestic consumers a chance to rehearse and revise their favourite Gothic dramas in miniature, and acting editions kept Gothic plays alive decades after their initial release, helping to build the Gothic canon. The Gothic pantomimes, melodramas and spectacles included in this volume invite new questions about the relationship between theatre, adaptation, print culture and the development of the Gothic.

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Acknowledgements

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General Introduction

Volume IV Introduction

1. J. C. Cross, Halloween, in Circusiana, or a Collection of the most favourite Ballets, Spectacles, Melo-dramas, &c. Performed at the Royal Circus, St George’s Fields Vol. I (Printed for the Author by T. Burton; and Published by Lackington, Allen and Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury-square, 1809), pp. 185-230.

2. W. Dunlap, Ribbemont, or The Feudal Baron in Five Acts as Performed at the New-York Theatre (New York: Printed and Published by D. Longworth at the Shakespeare Gallery, 1803).

3. M. G. Lewis, One O’Clock, or The Knight and the Wood Demon (London: Published by Lowndes and Hobbes, Marquis Court, Drury Lane and Sherwood, Nealy and Jones, Paternoster Row, 1811).

4. J. D. Turnbull, The Wood Demon, or the Clock Has Struck (Boston: B. True, 1808).

5. C. Z. Barnett, The Phantom Bride; or the Castilian Bandit in Duncombe’s Editions vol. vii (London: Duncombe, 1830).

6. G. Blink, The Vampire Bride, or the Tenant of the Tomb in Duncombe’s Acting Edition of the New British Theatre No. 61 (London: Duncombe, c. 1834).

7. W. Bradwell, Castle of Otranto or, Harlequin and the Giant Helmet (London: Green’s Juvenile Drama, 1841 and 1854).

8. C. M. S. Barnes, Octavia Bragaldi. in Plays, Prose and Poetry (Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1848), pp. 9–118.

9. H. W. Grosette, Raymond and Agnes, or the Bleeding Nun of Lindenberg; a melodrama in two acts in Lacy's Acting Edition of plays, dramas, farces, extravaganzas; as performed at various theatres, 1848-1873.  Vol. 43. (London: Thomas Hailes Lacy:, n.d.)

10. M. Lemon, The Haunted Man, in One Act, British Library, Add. Mss 53023K fols 1–42, Lord Chamberlin’s Collection of Plays.

11. R. Reece, The Vampire (London: E. Rascol, 1872).

12. E. Fitzball, The Flying Dutchman, or the Phantom Ship; a Nautical Drama in Three Acts, Cumberland’s Minor Theatre no 14 (London: Cumberland, 1829).

13. W. G. Wills and P. Fitzgerald, Vanderdecken, Trinity College Library Dublin, Manuscripts and Archives, IE TCD MS 3739, fols. 1–69.

14. H. C. Merivale, Ravenswood, a play in 4 acts, British Library, ‘printed for private circulation only’ (place of publication and publisher unknown, n.d.)

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