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Personating the Ripper: civilian performance and the melodramatic mode

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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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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1177/1748372719861610

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
Humanities Division
Department:
English
Oxford college:
Magdalen College
Role:
Author
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
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EISSN:
2048-2906
ISSN:
1748-3727
Language:
English
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pubs:1017330
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uuid:ca2c497e-da28-4a7a-924a-5a9fb1cbefc7
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pubs:1017330
Source identifiers:
1017330
Deposit date:
2019-06-18

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