{"product_id":"dickensian-dramas-volume-1-jacky-bratton-9780198787952","title":"Dickensian Dramas, Volume 1: Plays from Charles Dickens","description":"Dickens loved the stage: he enjoyed thousands of evenings in the theatre, longed to write for the stage and to perform himself, an ambition that he eventually satisfied by touring alone with his \u003cem\u003eReadings\u003c\/em\u003e. Victorian prejudice and his need to preserve his personal image kept him from openly becoming a stage professional earlier in his career, but all his work was informed by his dramatic imagination. He found ways of circumventing these taboos by seeking closer and closer contact over the staging of his work with dramatic writers, admired actors, and trusted theatre managements. This book presents, for the first time, fully edited texts of some of the plays which these tacit collaborations produced: dramatizations of Dickens's early novels (from \u003cem\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eBarnaby Rudge\u003c\/em\u003e) and, especially, his Christmas books, which appeared almost annually between 1843 and 1848. Each of these, from \u003cem\u003eA Christmas Carol\u003c\/em\u003e onwards, was staged in London's new West End theatres simultaneously with the books' publications. Dickens sent proof sheets to his friends to \"dramatize\" work that was often already conceived for the stage, specifically for his actor friends, Bob and Mary Ann Keeley. This selection of plays that were created in this way, some previously unpublished, offers the first opportunity for modern scholars to consider not only an exciting body of translations to the stage made by the first generation of Dickensian adaptors, but also the influence of their work and of the performances they enabled upon the Dickens himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacky Bratton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198787952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198787952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2018","brand":"Jacky Bratton","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46838249816319,"sku":"9780198787952","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6252922a-3f3d-4905-88f1-b87f1eda8d81.jpg?v=1746589256","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dickensian-dramas-volume-1-jacky-bratton-9780198787952","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}