Adaptations of Victorian Fiction in Drama, Cinema, and Television (original) (raw)

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General

• Edward Stirling (1809-94): Dramatist, Adapter, Actor, and Stage Manager
• The most haunting characters in adaptations of Victorian Fiction in Drama, Cinema, and Television

Dramatic adaptations of works by Dickens

• Dramatic Adaptations of Dickens's Novels (1836-1870)
• Contemporary illustrations and titlepages of Theatrical Adaptations of Dickens
• Edward Stirling's A Christmas Carol; or, Past, Present, and Future, A Burletta in Three Staves (1844, in collaboration with Charles Dickens) -- text
• Poster, Edward Stirling's adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, Theatre Royal New Adelphi 1860.
• A Review of the 1868 Theatrical Adaptation of Dickens's Oliver Twist
• Prologue to Mark Lemon and G. A. A'Beckett's Adaptation of "The Chimes"
• Fox Cooper's July 1860 Adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (text -- discussion)
• The Ending of the 1861 adaptation of Great Expectations
• The Ending of the 1872 adaptation of Great Expectations
• A Bibliography of Dramatic Adaptations of Dickens' Great Expectations
• A Comparison of Albert Smith's and Dion Boucicault's Adaptations of The Cricket on the Hearth
• Dion Boucicault's Adaptation of The Cricket on the Hearth (Dot)
• Early Dramas from Oliver Twist (1838-1842)
• Charles Dickens (21 illustrated title pages and dramatic personae)

Dramatic adaptations of works by other authors

• Charlotte Brontë (illustrated title pages and dramatic personae)
• Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (Flock Theatre, New London, Connecticut 2020)
• Wilkie Collins (illustrated title pages and dramatic personae)
• Sir Walter Scott (illustrated title pages and dramatic personae)

Cinema

• Great Expectations in Film and Television, 1917 to 1998 (includes bibliography and filmography)

Television

• Dennis Potter's 1978 Television Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge
• The Claim (2000) -- an adaptation of The Mayor of Casterbridge
• Pip, child and adult in the 2014 Drama Channel's Great Expectation
• Estella, child and adult in the 2014 Drama Channel's Great Expectation

Recent publications of interest

• Murray, Simone. The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation. London: Routledge, 2011.

According to David Finkelstein, who reviewed Murray's book in the January 2012 Times Literary Supplement, “This timely work details how books and fiction writing are enmeshed within a complex business network that links texts to other media sources. Literary fiction in particular is a fruitful hunting ground for film and screen adaptation” (27). The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Related material

• Brunel University’s 2018 Symposium, “Dickens Adapting, Dickens Adapted”
• Chained: A Victorian Nightmare — Thirty Minutes into the Future? (a Virtual Reality adaptation of A Christmas Carol

Last modified 17 June 2019