Plays by James Robinson Planché (British and American Playwrights, 1750-1920)
ISBN-13:
9780521284417
ISBN-10:
0521284414
Author:
James Robinson Planché, Donald Roy
Publication date:
1986
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
256 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780521284417
ISBN-10:
0521284414
Author:
James Robinson Planché, Donald Roy
Publication date:
1986
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Format:
Paperback
256 pages
Summary
Plays by James Robinson Planché (British and American Playwrights, 1750-1920) (ISBN-13: 9780521284417 and ISBN-10: 0521284414), written by authors
James Robinson Planché, Donald Roy, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1986.
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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.
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