British Nautical Melodramas, 1820–1850 - Arnold Schmidt

British Nautical Melodramas, 1820–1850

Volume III

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
348 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-75104-0 (ISBN)
149,60 inkl. MwSt
The plays in included in these three volumes have never appeared in a critical anthology and most have not been republished since their original nineteenth-century editions. Each play is transcribed from the original documents with full annotations and comprehensive editorial apparatus.
During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "reigned supreme" on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes. However, generally the study of British theatre history moves from medieval and renaissance plays directly to the realism and naturalism of late Victorian and modern drama. Readers typically encounter a gap between Restoration and eighteenth-century plays like those of Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and late-nineteenth plays by Henrik Ibsen and Oscar Wilde. Nineteenth-century drama, with the possible exception of plays by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth, remains all but invisible. Until recently, melodramatic plays written and performed during this "gap" received little scholarly attention, but their value as reflections of Britain’s promulgation of imperial ideology — and its role in constructing and maintaining class, gender, and racial identities — have given discussions of melodrama force and momentum.

The plays in included in these three volumes have never appeared in a critical anthology and most have not been republished since their original nineteenth-century editions. Each play is transcribed from the original documents and includes an author biography, a headnote about the play itself, full annotations with brief definitions of unfamiliar vocabulary, and explanatory notes. Comprehensive editorial apparatus details the nineteenth-century imperial, naval, political, and social history relevant to the plays’ nautical themes, as well as discussing nineteenth-century theatre history, melodrama generally, and the nautical melodrama in particular. Contemporary theatre practices — acting, audiences, staging, lighting, special effects — are also examined. An extensive bibliography of primary and secondary texts; a complete index; and contemporary images of the actors, theatres, stage sets, playbills, costumes, and locales have been compiled to aid study further. The appendices include maps of Britain, Europe, and the East and West Indies.

Arnold Schmidt is Professor of English at California State University, Stanislaus, USA

Introduction to William Thomas Moncrieff

Moncrieff. Shipwreck of the Medusa; or, the Fatal Raft

Introduction to W.H. Oxbury & J. Gann

Oxbury & Gann. Midshipman Easy

Introduction to Isaac Pocock

Pocock. Robinson Crusoe and the Bold Buccaneers

Introduction to Charles Somerset

Somerset. The Fall of Algiers, By Sea and Land
Somerset. The Sea

Introduction to Edward Stirling

Stirling. The Cabin Boy

Introduction to Thomas James Thackeray

Thackeray. Penmark Abbey

Introduction to T.E. Wilks

Wilks. Ben the Boatswain

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Historical Resources
Zusatzinfo 4 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Literatur Anthologien
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lektüren / Interpretationen
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10 1-138-75104-9 / 1138751049
ISBN-13 978-1-138-75104-0 / 9781138751040
Zustand Neuware
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