Charlotte BrontA"'s Jane Eyre was published in October, 1847, and
within three months a version was on stage in London. By 1900, at
least eight different stage versions had appeared in England,
America and continental Europe. For the first time, all eight plays
are available in Patsy Stoneman's critical edition, richly
illustrated by facsimile reproductions of manuscripts, unique
Victorian playbills, contemporary etchings of theatres, and
portraits of playwrights and actors. Stoneman's introduction places
the plays' bizarre innovations in the context of theatre history
and of contemporary debates on class and gender, while each edited
play-text is accompanied by detailed notes, based on original
research, on the playwright, theatre(s) and performances, and
contemporary reception. Most of these plays existed only in
manuscript, and were quickly forgotten, yet they make fascinating
reading. Nineteenth-century playwrights had no reverence for a text
we regard as canonical, but added to, deleted from and twisted
Charlotte BrontA"'s story to suit their own purposes. One play has
a cast of comic servants who follow Jane from Lowood to Thornfield.
In another, the madwoman is revealed as the sister-in-law of a
blameless Rochester. A third has Blanche Ingram reduced to a fallen
woman, seduced and abandoned by John Reed. Jane Eyre on Stage will
appeal to readers interested in literary and theatrical history,
cultural studies, and the intriguing afterlives of famous books.
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