Is he a dramatist? Or, something singular! Staging Dickensian drama as practice-led research

Robinson, Joanna, Cox Jensen, Oskar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8106-1248 and Whipday, Emma (2016) Is he a dramatist? Or, something singular! Staging Dickensian drama as practice-led research. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 43 (2). pp. 160-182. ISSN 1748-3727

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Abstract

Charles Dickens is not usually remembered as a dramatist; in fact, the contemporary success of his subsequently neglected dramatic writing is predicated on the absence of the authorial persona that we now consider ‘Dickensian’. Drawing on findings from a practice-led research project, which staged Dickens’s burletta Is She His Wife? or, Something Singular!, this article examines what performing this play can tell us about Dickensian dramaturgy and nineteenth-century theatrical culture. Interrogating the role of practice-led research in the study of nineteenth-century drama, we suggest that this methodology allows contemporary scholars to look beyond Dickens’s contemporary significance as a canonised literary and heritage figure. Our historically informed production illuminates the ways in which Dickens used material properties, music, and performance strategies to stage-manage his own disappearing act as a playwright.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
Related URLs:	https://eprints.ncl.ac.uk/251100 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	27 May 2021 00:10
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2022 11:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80138
DOI:	10.1177/1748372716687317

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