Chartist drama

by Vargo, Gregory

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Title Statements

Full title :Chartist drama / edited by Gregory Vargo.

Summary

The 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 22 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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
Place of Publication:Manchester
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 247 pages : : illustrations (black and white) ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1526142066, 9781526142061
oclc:on1132286538
LC Classification:PR1111.C515
Dewey Decimal:822.8080358

Wat Tyler (1794-1817) / Robert Southey -- John Frost (1841) / John Watkins -- The trial of Robert Emmet (1841) -- St John's Eve (1848) / Ernest Jones.

Subjects

Chartism in literature Chartisme dans la littérature Criticism, interpretation, etc Drama English drama English drama -- 19th century Théâtre anglais -- 19e siècle