Stage Blood : Vampires of the 19th Century Stage by Roxana Stuart (1994, Trade Paperback)

University of Wisconsin Press

0879726601

9780879726607

251436

Stage Blood : Vampires of the 19th Century Stage

386 Pages

English

Film / Genres / Horror, Drama, Theater / History & Criticism, Popular Culture, General

1994

Yes

Literary Criticism, Drama, Performing Arts, Social Science

Roxana Stuart

Trade Paperback

1.1 in

19.1 Oz

9 in

6 in

Trade

94-072404

20

809.2/9375

The vampire originally took on its characteristics in the public imagination from a series of plays written and performed by some of the most important figures in nineteenth-century theater. This work is the first major study devoted to the vampire on stage; the author discusses the figure that preceded Dracula-Lord Ruthven-the subject of more than forty English, French, and American plays. The principal works are melodramas, but the vampire theme was also treated in tragedy, opera, ballet, burlesque, farce, burletta, and satire., The vampire originally took on its characteristics in the public imagination from a series of plays written and performed by some of the most important figures in nineteenth-century theater. This work is the first major study devoted to the vampire on stage; the author discusses the figure that preceded Dracula--Lord Ruthven--the subject of more than forty English, French, and American plays. The principal works are melodramas, but the vampire theme was also treated in tragedy, opera, ballet, burlesque, farce, burletta, and satire.

PN1650.V34S78 1994