| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Wat Tyler (1794/1817) -- Robert Southey -- John Frost (1841) -- John Watkins -- The Trial of Robert Emmet (1841) -- St. John's Eve (1848) -- Ernest Jones |
| 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 twenty-two 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 |
| Analysis |
Chartism |
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Chartist literature |
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Irish rebellion of 1803 |
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Melodrama |
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Newport rising |
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Protest art |
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Radicalism |
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Victorian drama |
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Working-class literature |
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Working-class theatre |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 01, 2020) |
| Subject |
Political plays, English.
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English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Newport Uprising, Newport, Wales, 1839 -- Drama
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DRAMA -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Political plays, English
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English drama
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Wales -- Newport
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Drama
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vargo, Gregory, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781526142078 |
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1526142074 |
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