Is He a Dramatist? Or, Something Singular! Staging Dickensian drama as practice-led research

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dc.contributor.authorHofer-Robinson, Joanna
dc.contributor.authorCox Jensen, Oskar
dc.contributor.authorWhipday, Emma
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-19T14:18:54Z
dc.date.available2017-10-19T14:18:54Z
dc.date.issued2016-11-01
dc.date.updated2017-10-19T13:36:10Z
dc.description.abstractCharles Dickens is not usually remembered as a dramatist; in fact, the contemporary success of his subsequently neglected dramatic writing is predicated on the absence of the authorial persona that we now consider ‘Dickensian’. Drawing on findings from a practice-led research project, which staged Dickens’s burletta Is She His Wife? or, Something Singular!, this article examines what performing this play can tell us about Dickensian dramaturgy and nineteenth-century theatrical culture. Interrogating the role of practice-led research in the study of nineteenth-century drama, we suggest that this methodology allows contemporary scholars to look beyond Dickens’s contemporary significance as a canonised literary and heritage figure. Our historically informed production illuminates the ways in which Dickens used material properties, music, and performance strategies to stage-manage his own disappearing act as a playwright.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationRobinson, J., Jensen, O. C. and Whipday, E. (2016) 'Is He a Dramatist? Or, Something Singular! Staging Dickensian Drama as Practice-Led Research', Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 43(2), pp. 160-182. doi: 10.1177/1748372716687317en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1748372716687317
dc.identifier.endpage182en
dc.identifier.issn1748-3727
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleNineteenth Century Theatre and Filmen
dc.identifier.startpage160en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/4917
dc.identifier.volume43en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen
dc.relation.urihttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1748372716687317
dc.rights© 2016 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publicationsen
dc.subjectDickensen
dc.subjectBurlettaen
dc.subjectPractice-led researchen
dc.subjectSceneryen
dc.subjectRehearsalen
dc.subject1830sen
dc.titleIs He a Dramatist? Or, Something Singular! Staging Dickensian drama as practice-led researchen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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