After Dickens Reading, Adaptation and Performance

John Glavin offers both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. Through close study of text and context Glavin uncovers a richly ambivalent, often unexpectedly hostile, relationship between Dickens and the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and shows how Dickens's novels can be seen as a form of counter-performance. Yet Glavin also explores the performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations.Glavin, John is the author of 'After Dickens Reading, Adaptation and Performance', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521032377 and ISBN 0521032377.