Overview

The 1860s was the era of “sensation fiction”—novels of passion gone wrong, usually with a nefarious heroine at their center, usually featuring extraordinary turns in a domestic relationship (desertion, bigamy, insanity), and always featuring a good deal of suspense. The most popular of all may well have been Lady Audley’s Secret, an extraordinary tale of a beautiful woman willing to kill to conceal her past. Within a year of the novel appearing in book form, no less than three adaptations appeared on the London stage. Entertaining in itself, the play also provides a fascinating example of how the suspense and the powerful characterizations of sensation fiction were heightened still further for the stage.

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Author:   Mary Elizabeth Braddon ,  George Roberts ,  Yeveniya Traps
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Edition:   Revised ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.189kg
ISBN:  

9781554811601

ISBN 10:   1554811600
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   15 February 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Sensation Novels Lady Audley’s Secret on the Stage Lady Audley’s Secret: A Drama in Two Acts In Context Differences between Braddon’s Novel and Roberts’s Play from Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret (1861–62) Reviews of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret “Lady Audley’s Secret,” The Times (18 November 1862) Review of Lady Audley’s Secret, The Spectator 1791 (1862) Review of Lady Audley’s Secret, The Critic 25.631 (December 1862) Review of Lady Audley’s Secret, The Rose, the Shamrock and the Thistle 2 (November 1862) from “Our Female Sensation Novelists,” Christian Remembrancer 46 (1863) from H.L. Mansel, “Sensation Novels,” Quarterly Review 113 (April 1863) Reviews of George Roberts’s Lady Audley’s Secret “‘Lady Audley’ on the Stage,” The London Review 6.140 (7 March 1863) “St. James’s Theatre,” The Rose, the Shamrock and the Thistle 2 (April 1863) from “The Theatres,” Musical World 41.11 (14 March 1863)

Reviews

This edition of George Roberts's version of Lady Audley's Secret makes available for the first time the version performed at the St. James's Theatre. It comes with a useful introduction, comparative analysis of the play and the novel, and a cross-section of reviews, both of the novel and of this particular dramatization. The annotations are generally very helpful.... [and the edition includes] some invaluable background resources. --Jim Davis, University of Warwick

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Contributing Editor Yevgeniya Traps is Associate Lecturer in English at Barnard College.

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