Journal article
Personating the Ripper: civilian performance and the melodramatic mode
- Abstract:
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This article illuminates how the Ripper murders and their 1888 coverage re-theatricalised not only London, but many provincial towns. It looks beyond canonical theatrical contexts for, and responses to the Ripper, exploring extra-theatrical, popular performance ‘scenarios’ by civilian men, outside professional sites of theatricalised or medicalised spectatorship. It examines how civilian men personated key figures in the Ripper ‘scenario’: the plain-clothes detective, the Ripper's female vict...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film Journal website
- Volume:
- 46
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 190-209
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-09
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-06-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2048-2906
- ISSN:
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1748-3727
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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pubs:1017330
- UUID:
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uuid:ca2c497e-da28-4a7a-924a-5a9fb1cbefc7
- Local pid:
- pubs:1017330
- Source identifiers:
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1017330
- Deposit date:
- 2019-06-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Duncan, S
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2019 The Author. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from SAGE at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1748372719861610
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