{"title":"Adaptable Near and Far: C. H. Hazlewood’s Double Adaptations","authors":"Joanna Hofer-Robinson","doi":"10.1177/1748372720949120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372720949120","url":null,"abstract":"Stage personnel faced complex and conflicting demands in the nineteenth century to curate and cater to appetites for theatre with perceived local relevance and increasingly mobile and diverse audiences. This article argues that the formulaic melodramas written for less reputable London theatres allowed for just such local identification as well as for coming and going, as playwrights produced dramas which simultaneously traded on their knowledge of managerial preferences and theatrical companies while retaining an inclusive ambiguity in their scripts by avoiding specific political affiliation and curating moments of metatheatrical humour that appealed to audiences’ general knowledge of stage conventions, rather than specific local contexts or affiliations. Focusing on two very different dramatisations of Charles Reade’s novel It Is Never Too Late to Mend, both written by C. H. Hazlewood, this article analyses how the playwright addressed the tastes and capabilities of a network of professionals with whom he was personally connected, while maintaining an essential ambiguity that made these dramas portable across an international dramatic circuit.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130877069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Giorgio Bertellini, The Divo and the Duce, Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America","authors":"David Mayer","doi":"10.1177/1748372720941274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372720941274","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114408738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richard Abel, Motor City Movie Culture, 1916-1925","authors":"Jeffrey Klenotic","doi":"10.1177/1748372720943978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372720943978","url":null,"abstract":"Aldridge who achieved fame on English stages beginning in 1824. A notable exception to this omission lies in Bridget Orr’s superb chapter on empire and sentiment in which she describes the attendance and reaction of two African men at a performance of Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko at Covent Garden in 1749. That the Handbook does not tackle every aspect of inquiry related to the Georgian theatre should not be read as a flaw. Rather, it is a testament to the Handbook’s important purpose of presenting a broad overview of the field, while boldly exposing new questions that still need to be answered. Every chapter in the Handbook illuminates the cultural centrality of the Georgian theatre and points to the continued relevance of its study. The contributors, a diverse, multinational, and interdisciplinary group, further reflect the exciting expansion of Georgian theatre scholarship. The Handbook is sure to inform and inspire literary scholars, historians, instructors, students and theatre practitioners.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126556664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David Francis Taylor and Julia Swindells (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre, 1737–1832","authors":"Willow White","doi":"10.1177/1748372720934205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372720934205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134296565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Boucicault was ‘Boucicaulted’: The Octoroon, Race, Photography, and Pre-adaptation","authors":"D. Novak","doi":"10.1177/1748372720932748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372720932748","url":null,"abstract":"Boucicault’s Octoroon was famously ‘adapted’ by the author in response to British audience’s discomfort with Zoe’s death in 1861. As it turns out, however, a play very similar to Boucicault’s appeared in England nearly a year before its British debut. The Quadroon; or, the Sun Picture (1860) is not simply an act of plagiarism, or even simply an adaptation of Boucicault’s play. Instead, it is a pastiche of the sources Boucicault drew on for his play, along with unmistakable elements of Boucicault’s – a kind of meta-adaptation. I focus on how The Quadroon incorporates The Octoroon’s use of photography and his sources for the idea of a camera capturing a murderer in the act. What emerges is a play that offers a different representation of the figure of the photographer, the dynamics of racial justice, and the dynamics of racial visuality. By focusing on the use of photography in The Octoroon, The Quadroon, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon (2014), I explore more broadly how the spectacle of photographic technology on stage itself offers a self-reflexive commentary on melodramatic form and structure. Melodramas that stage photography both highlight the strange temporality of the tableau and ask us to think of photography as both a frozen image (a product) and kinetic act (a process and performance).","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130253926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"May Holt’s Waiting Consent","authors":"R. Fotheringham","doi":"10.1177/1748372720925771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372720925771","url":null,"abstract":"In 1880 the English actor and manager May Holt, following her real-life marriage to a ‘gentleman’ and temporary withdrawal from London and provincial stages, wrote six plays which were staged many times by several managements. The introduction gives some details of her career and examines in detail her most successful work, a short ‘curtain raiser’ comedy, Waiting Consent, which starred several major actors over the next decade, including Violet and Irene Vanbrugh. An unusual early ‘bedroom farce’, it challenged assumptions about women and marriage in the same decade that saw the passing of the Married Women’s Property Act and the first staging of Ibsen’s A Doll's House. The edited script of Waiting Consent follows.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127899266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embodied Scholarship: A Performance History of William Richard Waldron’s Lizzie Leigh; or, The Murder Near the Old Mill (1863)","authors":"Thomas E. Recchio","doi":"10.1177/1748372719853234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372719853234","url":null,"abstract":"Through a reflective account of the process by which William Richard Waldron’s Lizzie Leigh was staged by the Theatre Caucus at the 2018 North American Victorian Studies Association conference held in St Petersburg, Florida, I hope to present a picture of what it might mean to figure scholarship as an act of embodiment through performance as both a stimulus for and a mode of inquiry. Towards that end, I offer a process narrative that tracks the selection, editing, infrastructure planning, rehearsal, and performance of the play in an effort to capture the intentional, inadvertent, and retrospective avenues of inquiry that emerged through that process, with an emphasis on tracking as fully as possible the performance history of the play, of which the North American Victorian Studies Association performance became a part. In addition to documenting the performance history of the play in Victorian Britain, I will also document the career of the play’s author in relation to the changes in decade and in venue of performances of the play in order to suggest the appeal and staying power of an under-valued piece of Victorian theatrical culture that still can speak to audiences today.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129564287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A ‘Distinctive’ Map of London: Women, Theatre and the Classics in 1893","authors":"Laura Monrós-Gaspar","doi":"10.1177/1748372719900453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372719900453","url":null,"abstract":"Copious geographies of nineteenth-century London spectacle have been mapped following different scales and criteria. In this article, I invite readers to scrutinise London’s entertainment industry in 1893 focusing on the venues where modern reconfigurations and adaptations of Greek and Roman mythology by women were first staged. Such a map reveals microhistories of the streets, theatres, pleasure gardens and concert halls, where women as creators and agents of the classical revival played an essential role that has generally been forgotten by theatre historians and classical reception studies. As I aim to demonstrate, this new and gendered cartography challenges the notion of a classical repertoire and the boundaries between the popular and the legitimate.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126507027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wilkie Collins, The Lighthouse – A Drama in Two Acts; Wilkie Collins, The Red Vial – A Drama in Three Acts; Joanna Hofer-Robinson and Beth Palmer (eds), Sensation Drama, 1860–1880: An Anthology","authors":"J. Waite","doi":"10.1177/1748372719900430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372719900430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127946326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jane Austen Goes to Drury Lane: Identifying Individuals in a Late Georgian Audience","authors":"D. Worrall","doi":"10.1177/1748372719900454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372719900454","url":null,"abstract":"This essay identifies the theatre box where the novelist, Jane Austen (1775–1817), sat in 1814 to watch Edmund Kean in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The Folger Shakespeare Library’s Drury Lane Box Book enables calendar analysis of box occupancy with names, titles and, occasionally, addresses. Critical practice has tended to treat audiences as undifferentiated groups. Assemblage theory makes it possible to conceptualise individuals in audiences as equivalent to audiences in their entirety. Sitting in the same box as Austen was Lady Cecil Copley (1770–1819), the divorced 1st Marchioness of Abercorn. Amongst the other boxes were parties formed by wives of army and naval personnel and a British consul to Brazil. A few boxes away sat Jane Akers, née Ramsay (1772–1842), the wife of a St Kitts slave owner. Akers later claimed compensation under the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. That weekend Austen had with her the manuscript of Mansfield Park (1814), a novel recognised as a critique of a fictional parkland estate sustained by slavery. Given the steep cultural differentials evident in this single box tier, it is argued theatrical performance, even in Kean’s re-evaluation of Shylock, may have been only tangential in altering the behaviour of that night’s audience.","PeriodicalId":286523,"journal":{"name":"Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124362905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}