The Hour of One: Six Gothic Melodramas
Wischhusen, Stephen (editor)
| Publication Date |
1975 |
| ISBN |
0900406631 |
| Publisher |
Gordon Fraser |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Very good copy in good+ dust wrapper |
| SKU |
21434 |
| Notes |
Red boards with black titles to spine are very clean and neat. Dust wrapper is lightly rubbed with two small short closed tears to top front edge. |
Description
Hardback. 173pp. Frontis and 13 further black and white illustrations. Contains facsimile texts of the scripts of: The Vampire, The Devil's Elixir, The Flying Dutchman, The Castle Spectre, A Tale of Mystery, and Frankenstein. With a substantial introduction by Stephen Wischhusen on London theatres in the early nineteenth century and the production of gothic melodramas. The original contributors are Matthew Lewis, Thomas Holcroft, J. R. Planche, Henry M. Milner, Edward Fitzball. Landscape format with two facsimile pages per page.
