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Jane Eyre on Stage, 1848â"1898 : An Illustrated Edition of Eight Plays with Contextual Notes - Patsy Stoneman

Jane Eyre on Stage, 1848â"1898

An Illustrated Edition of Eight Plays with Contextual Notes

By: Patsy Stoneman

Hardcover | 19 June 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Charlotte Bront«''s Jane Eyre was published in October, 1847, and within three months a version was on stage in London. By 1900, at least eight different stage versions had appeared in England, America and continental Europe. For the first time, all eight plays are available in Patsy Stoneman''s critical edition, richly illustrated by facsimile reproductions of manuscripts, unique Victorian playbills, contemporary etchings of theatres, and portraits of playwrights and actors. Stoneman''s introduction places the plays'' bizarre innovations in the context of theatre history and of contemporary debates on class and gender, while each edited play-text is accompanied by detailed notes, based on original research, on the playwright, theatre(s) and performances, and contemporary reception. Most of these plays existed only in manuscript, and were quickly forgotten, yet they make fascinating reading. Nineteenth-century playwrights had no reverence for a text we regard as canonical, but added to, deleted from and twisted Charlotte Bront«''s story to suit their own purposes. One play has a cast of comic servants who follow Jane from Lowood to Thornfield. In another, the madwoman is revealed as the sister-in-law of a blameless Rochester. A third has Blanche Ingram reduced to a fallen woman, seduced and abandoned by John Reed. Jane Eyre on Stage will appeal to readers interested in literary and theatrical history, cultural studies, and the intriguing afterlives of famous books.
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'This excellent volume makes available a group of fascinating and hitherto unexplored texts and presents them according to the highest standards of scholarship. It will be an invaluable resource for theatre scholars, BrontA<< specialists, and those interested in the afterlife of canonical works of literature'. Heather Glen, University of Cambridge, UK '...a carefully researched book...Everything is presented [...] with the highest standards of scholarship...a fascinating account of the history of the 'popular' theatre of the late nineteenth century (especially in London) in general and of how Jane Eyre was perceived and assimilated by Victorian society in particular...studiously researched and interesting.' BrontA<

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