Sensation Drama, 1860–1880

Joanna Hofer-Robinson is an Assistant Professor in the English and Comparative Literary Studies department at the University of Warwick. Her recent publications include Dickens and Demolition (2018) and Sensation Drama, 1860—1880: An Anthology (2019, co-edited with Beth Palmer), as well as articles on various aspects of nineteenth-century drama and Dickens studies. Dr Beth Palmer is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Surrey. She is the author of Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (Oxford University Press, 2011) and a co-editor, with Adelene Buckland, of a volume entitled A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900 (Ashgate, 2011). She is currently editing a special issue of the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies with Dr Benjamin Poore at York University

This welcome book consists of a carefully edited and annotated selection of sensation dramas performed in the 1860s and 1870s, plus an informative and insightful introduction to the genre. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Victorian culture, theatre and literature.

• List of IllustrationsList of ArchivesGlossary of Irish Words, as Anglicised in The Colleen BawnIntroductionNever Too Late to Mend, by C. H. Hazlewood (1859)The Colleen Bawn, by Dion Boucicault (1860)Under the Gaslight, by Augustin Daly (1867)Miss Chester, by Florence Marryat and Charles Young (1872)The Missing Witness, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1874)Bibliography