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Authorship – Novelists, Playwrights, Actor Managers

Authorship – Novelists, Playwrights, Actor Managers Claudine van Hensbergen, Northumbria University c laudine.vanhensbergen@northumbria.ac.uk. Where can we locate a dialogue between theatre and novel ? How do we assess and measure it?

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Authorship – Novelists, Playwrights, Actor Managers

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  1. Authorship – Novelists, Playwrights, Actor Managers Claudine van Hensbergen, Northumbria University claudine.vanhensbergen@northumbria.ac.uk

  2. Where can we locate a dialogue between theatre and novel? • How do we assess and measure it? • - Intersections in the work of authors who are both novelists and playwrights • - Adaptations of plays into novels, novels into plays • - Intertextual, or ‘intergeneric’, references between novels and drama • - Similarities in modes and style of writing, in the use of characterisation, action and language, in the use of structuring divisions/sections (acts, scenes, epistles and chapters), and in the articulation of shared concerns and ideas • - Map the output of theatre and novel in the period

  3. ‘Theatre’

  4. A Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living(1788) • ‘Performances’ and ‘Productions’ • 61 authors listed as authors of novels, drama (or both) • Of these, • 15 female authors (7 novel; 5 drama; 3 novel & drama) • 46 male authors (1 novel; 39 drama; 6 novel & drama) • Of the 53 authors listed as writing drama, 11 entries (Boyce; Lady Elizabeth Craven; Davis; Hugh Downman; Frederic Howard; Sir Richard Paul Joddrel; George Keate; John Logan; Jane Marshal; Horace Walpole; Thomas Warwick) state that none of this author’s dramatic output has been performed on the public stage. • 10 of these authors, all writers of drama, are listed as also working in the theatre in another professional capacity (Colman Sr.; Thomas Holcroft; Thomas Hull; Elizabeth Inchbald; John Kemble; Thomas King; Charles Macklin; John O’Keefe; Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Thomas Waldron)

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