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Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic stage / Catherine Wynne.
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Author
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Date published
2013
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Publisher
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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Subject
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 Criticism and interpretation.
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912 Knowledge Theater.
Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. Dracula.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English History and criticism
Theater Great Britain History 19th century
English drama 19th century Themes, motives
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Accession number
8341016
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Class
83.4/WYN
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ISBN
9781137298980
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Language
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Physical description
ix, 195 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Bram Stoker worked in the theatre for most of his adult life, as theatre reviewer in Dublin in the 1870s and as business manager at London's Royal Lyceum Theatre in the final two decades of the 19th century. Despite this, critical attention to the influence of the stage on Stoker's writing has been sparse. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage addresses this lacuna, examining how Stoker's fictions respond to and engage with Victorian theatre's melodramatic climate and, in particular, to supernatural plays, Gothic melodramas and Shakespearean productions that Henry Irving and Ellen Terry performed at the Lyceum. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage locates the writer between stage and page. It reconsiders his literary relationships with key actors, and challenges the biographical assumption that Henry Irving provided the model for the figure of Count Dracula.