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Plays by James Robinson Planche: The Vampire, the Garrick Fever, Beauty and the Beast, Foutunio and His Seven Gifted Servants, the Golden Fleece, the

Plays by James Robinson Planche: The Vampire, the Garrick Fever, Beauty and the Beast, Foutunio and His Seven Gifted Servants, the Golden Fleece, the

Roy, Donald
Planche, J. R.
Banham, Martin

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Fiction AnthologiesPlays

ISBN10: 0521284414
ISBN13: 9780521284417
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 30 1986
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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