Blood on the Stage, 1800 to 1900: Milestone Plays of Murder, by Amnon Kabatchnik PDF

By Amnon Kabatchnik

ISBN-10: 1538106175

ISBN-13: 9781538106174

The historical past of theater is rife with stories of crime, suspense, and homicide. The 19th century was once no exception. extraordinary hallmarks of transgression drama in this century incorporated the advent of the melodrama, the 1st American musical, the debut of level detectives, and the emergence of numerous hit performs concentrating on real-life murderers (including the notorious Sweeney Todd).
In Blood at the degree, 1800 to 1900: Milestone performs of homicide, secret, and Mayhem, Amnon Kabatchnik completes his seven-volume exploration of theater’s darkest works with an summary of greater than fifty blood-splattered performs of the 19th century. one of the performs mentioned listed here are many literary variations, together with theatrical types of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, East Lynne, Lady Audley's Secret, The girl in White, Frankenstein, and numerous that includes Sherlock Holmes appearances. the various era’s so much remarkable playwrights are represented right here, together with Émile Zola, Honoré de Balzac, Wilkie Collins, Anna Katharine eco-friendly, and William Gillette, in addition to performs via authors greater identified for his or her different works, together with Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Père, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
This quantity cites works via writers from world wide, together with England, eire, Scotland, France, Germany, Russia, Norway, and the us. each one access is gifted chronologically and comprises plot synopsis, construction information, critiques through critics and students, and biographical sketches of playwrights and key actors. Blood at the level, 1800 to 1900 will be of curiosity to theater students, researchers, and theater fanatics alike.

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