Title Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian gothic stage / Catherine Wynne

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 195 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave Gothic Palgrave gothic series. Contents Introduction: setting the scene -- Stoker, melodrama and the gothic -- Irving's tempters and Stoker's vanishing ladies: supernatural production, mesmeric influence and magical illusion -- Ellen Terry and the "bloofer lady": femininity and fallenness -- Gothic weddings and performing vampires: Geneviève Ward and The lady of the shroud -- The Lyceum's Macbeth and Stoker's Dracula -- Conclusion Summary Bram Stoker worked in the theatre for most of his adult life, as theatre reviewer in Dublin in the 1870s and as business manager at London's Royal Lyceum Theatre in the final two decades of the 19th century. Despite this, critical attention to the influence of the stage on Stoker's writing has been sparse. "Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage" addresses this lacuna, examining how Stoker's fictions respond to and engage with Victorian theatre's melodramatic climate and, in particular, to supernatural plays, Gothic melodramas and Shakespearean productions that Henry Irving and Ellen Terry performed at the Lyceum. "Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage" locates the writer between stage and page. It reconsiders his literary relationships with key actors, and challenges the biographical assumption that Henry Irving provided the model for the figure of Count Dracula Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 -- Criticism and interpretation Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 -- Knowledge -- Theater SUBJECT Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 fast Subject Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English -- History and criticism English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Classic horror & ghost stories. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Performing Arts. English drama Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English Gothic revival (Literature) Theater Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137298997 1137298995

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