The first collection of its kind, Chartist Drama makes available
four plays written or performed by members of the Chartist movement
of the 1840s. Emerging from the lively counter-culture of this
protest campaign for democratic rights, these plays challenged
cultural as well as political hierarchies by adapting such
recognisable genres as melodrama, history plays, and tragedy for
performance in radically new settings. They include poet-activist
John Watkins's John Frost, which dramatises the gripping events of
the Newport rising, in which twenty-two Chartists lost their lives
in what was probably a misfired attempt to spark a nationwide
rebellion. Gregory Vargo's introduction and notes elucidate the
previously unexplored world of Chartist dramatic culture, a context
that promises to reshape what we know about early Victorian popular
politics and theatre. -- .
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