Richard J. Hand is Professor of Theatre and Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. He is the author of The Theatre of Joseph Conrad: Reconstructed Fictions (Palgrave, 2005) and has published numerous articles and book chapters on Conrad as well as on other figures from Ambrose Bierce to Frank Zappa. He has published numerous pieces in the area of adaptation studies and horror studies and has translated a number of plays by Victor Hugo and other French dramatists. He is an active theatre director and produced the world premiere of Conrad’s Laughing Anne in 2000.

• List of Illustrations A Note on Texts Acknowledgements I. Introduction: Conrad’s Victory; An Island Tale (1915) and Basil Macdonald Hastings’s Victory: A Play in Three Acts (1919) II. Victory: A Play in Three Acts by Basil Macdonald Hastings III. Victory: A Play in Three Acts: The Official Report of the Lord Chamberlain’s OfficeIV. Previews and Reviews of Victory at the Globe Theatre, 1919

Richard J. Hand is Professor of Theatre and Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. He is the author of The Theatre of Joseph Conrad: Reconstructed Fictions (Palgrave, 2005) and has published numerous articles and book chapters on Conrad as well as on other figures from Ambrose Bierce to Frank Zappa. He has published numerous pieces in the area of adaptation studies and horror studies and has translated a number of plays by Victor Hugo and other French dramatists. He is an active theatre director and produced the world premiere of Conrad’s Laughing Anne in 2000.

• List of Illustrations A Note on Texts Acknowledgements I. Introduction: Conrad’s Victory; An Island Tale (1915) and Basil Macdonald Hastings’s Victory: A Play in Three Acts (1919) II. Victory: A Play in Three Acts by Basil Macdonald Hastings III. Victory: A Play in Three Acts: The Official Report of the Lord Chamberlain’s OfficeIV. Previews and Reviews of Victory at the Globe Theatre, 1919

Richard J. Hand is Professor of Theatre and Media Drama at the University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. He is the author of The Theatre of Joseph Conrad: Reconstructed Fictions (Palgrave, 2005) and has published numerous articles and book chapters on Conrad as well as on other figures from Ambrose Bierce to Frank Zappa. He has published numerous pieces in the area of adaptation studies and horror studies and has translated a number of plays by Victor Hugo and other French dramatists. He is an active theatre director and produced the world premiere of Conrad’s Laughing Anne in 2000.

• List of Illustrations A Note on Texts Acknowledgements I. Introduction: Conrad’s Victory; An Island Tale (1915) and Basil Macdonald Hastings’s Victory: A Play in Three Acts (1919) II. Victory: A Play in Three Acts by Basil Macdonald Hastings III. Victory: A Play in Three Acts: The Official Report of the Lord Chamberlain’s OfficeIV. Previews and Reviews of Victory at the Globe Theatre, 1919