Henry Arthur Jones

The Lights o' London and Other Victorian Plays

AvEdward Fitzball,Joseph Stirling Coynem. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

1 354 kr

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This is a new selection of five English nineteenth-century plays, none of which has been recently available. In the case of "The Lights o' London", a famous drama of the 1880s, no printed text has ever before been published. Each of the plays represents the three dominant dramatic forms of the Victorian era: melodrama, farce and comedy. All were extremely popular with audiences, and much of the vigour, excitement and variety of dramatic expression of their time can be found in these texts.

Plays by Henry Arthur Jones

AvHenry Arthur Jones,Russell Jackson

Häftad, Engelska, 1982

351 kr

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Henry Arthur Jones was among the most prominent British dramatists of his day. A contemporary of Pinero, Wilde and Shaw, he did his best to elevate drama to the level of literature whilst constructing plays that were also successful in the commercial theatre. Though some of his contemporaries considered him cynical and daring, he strove to confront major issues without offending accepted social and dramatic conventions. This volume contains three of Jones's ninety-odd plays, representing the best of his work in different styles: melodrama and society drama. The Silver King (1882), the story of a man, falsely accused of murder, was Jones's first great success. It is one of the best melodramas ever written, and won high praise from Matthew Arnold for its literary merit and convincing characterisation. Jones's interest in the 'New Woman' of the 1890s is expressed in the lively dialogue of The Case of Rebellious Susan (1894), whose heroine is advised to renounce her new lover and return to her faithless husband - scarely a radical conclusion, but sympathetically handled. The Liars (1897) is a fine comedy of manners which again considers the question of marriage and the role of women in society. Dr Jackson's full introduction places Jones in the context of late Victorian society and theatre and describes his other literary activities - the published letters and essays on drama - as well as discussing some of the plays not included here. The volume is illustrated by contemporary production prints.

Saints and Sinners

A New and Original Drama of Modern English Middle-Class Life

Henry Arthur Jones - Böcker

The Lights o' London and Other Victorian Plays

Plays by Henry Arthur Jones

Saints and Sinners

Saints and Sinners

Foundations of a National Drama; a Collection of Lectures, Essays and Speeches, Delivered in The

Foundations of a National Drama; a Collection of Lectures, Essays and Speeches, Delivered in The

Triumph of the Philistines

Triumph of the Philistines

Crusaders

Crusaders

Middleman

Middleman

Mary Goes First

Case of Rebellious Susan

Patriotism and Popular Education ...

Renascence of the English Drama; Essays, Lectures, and Fragments Relating to the Modern English Stage

Theatre of Ideas a Burlesque Allegory

Hypocrites a Play in Four Acts

Liars

Silver King

Patriotism and Popular Education ...

Goal; a Dramatic Fragment

Mary Goes First

Case of Rebellious Susan

Renascence of the English Drama; Essays, Lectures, and Fragments Relating to the Modern English Stage

Hypocrites a Play in Four Acts

Liars

Silver King

Dolly Reforming Herself

Representative Plays: The Silver King; The Middleman; Judah; The Dancing Girl