Plays by James Robinson Planché: The Vampire, the Garrick Fever, Beauty and the Beast, Foutunio and His Seven Gifted Servants, The Golden Fleece, The Camp at the Olympic, The Discreet PrincessCUP Archive, 1986. jan. 30. - 241 oldal James Robinson Planché was one of the most prolific and successful of nineteenth-century playwrights. In a career spanning fifty years he wrote over one hundred and eighty pieces of all types, from pantomime and farce to melodrama and opera, for production at a wide range of London theatres. This book offers a representative selection of his most popular plays. It includes one melodrama - The Vampire; or The Bride of the Isles (1820), which represents the first treatment of the vampire theme on the English stage; one farce - The Garrick Fever (1839); three 'fairy' extravaganzas - Beauty and the Beast (1841), Fortunio and his Seven Gifted Servants (1843), and The Discreet Princess; or, The Three Glass Distaffs (1855); one 'classical' extravaganza - The Golden Fleece; or, Jason in Colchis and Medea in Corinth (1845); and one revue of events in contemporary London - The Camp at the Olympic (1853). The volume includes a lengthy introduction which sets the plays in the theatrical context of their time, a chronological record of Planché's life, a complete list of his plays, and a bibliography. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Biographical record | 36 |
THE GARRICK FEVER | 69 |
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST | 85 |
FORTUNIO AND HIS SEVEN GIFTED SERVANTS | 113 |
THE GOLDEN FLEECE OR JASON IN COLCHIS | 145 |
THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC | 173 |
THE DISCREET PRINCESS OR THE THREE | 195 |
Some variants | 230 |
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