After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance
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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 wi…
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- Full title :After Dickens : Reading, Adaptation and Performance.
Summary
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 radical new reading of Dickens through an unusual alliance between literary criticism and theatrical performance.
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- Publication Date:1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (244 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1280161906, 9781280161902, 9780511484810, 051148481X, 9780521633222, 0521633222, 9780521032377, 0521032377
- oclc:ocn824532985
- LC Classification:PR4592
- Dewey Decimal:823.8
Table of Contents
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the text -- Introduction -- I Set Up -- CHAPTER 1 Dickens, adaptation and Grotowski -- DICKENS -- ADAPTATION -- AND GROTOWSKI -- AND BACK, THEN, TO DICKENS -- CHAPTER 2 as upon a theatre -- QUOD SCRIPSI SCRIPSI -- HALVING A MUTUAL FRIEND -- ENTERING THE DICKENS CAMERA -- II Flashback -- CHAPTER 3 to be a Shakespeare -- EXCEPT ACTORS SOMETIMES -- A SPECTACLE OF THE PLAYER -- CHAPTER 4 Exit ""the sanguine mirage"" -- THE BOY IN THE GLASS BOOTH.
INTERLUDE: REFLECTIONS ON A NORMAL DEVIANCE -- MOUNTING THE SCAFFOLD -- THE HIGH COST OF DEFENSE -- CODA -- III Resolution -- CHAPTER 5 How To Do It -- THE ARGUMENT -- NOBODY'S FAULT -- I: OVERTURE -- II: CLENNAM DECIDES TO RETURN HOME -- III. CLENNAM VISITS THE HOUSE OF HIS ESTRANGED MOTHER -- IV. AN AFFLICTED CLENNAM CHOOSES BETWEEN TWO KINDS OF LOVE -- V. CLENNAM VISITS THE HOUSE OF HIS MOTHER FOR THE SECOND TIME -- VI. CLENNAM WALKS WITH LITTLE DORRIT ON THE IRON BRIDGE -- VII. CLENNAM ENTERS THE PRISON -- VIII. CLENNAM ENCOUNTERS THE DORRIT FAMILY.
IX. CLENNAM STAYS TOO LONG AND IS LOCKED INTO THE PRISON -- X. CLENNAM DETER…
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