Dion Boucicault

The Vampire (1852) and The Phantom (1873)

Matthew Knight, Gary D. Rhodes

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University of Wales Press
25 September 2024

Series: Gothic Originals

Previously unpublished versions of plays by one of the most popular and prolific dramatists of the Victorian age.

Almost fifty years before Bram Stoker penned Dracula, Dion Boucicault staged The Vampire, a three-act play that thrilled London audiences and Queen Victoria. The production boasted innovations of stagecraft and dramatic composition, to say nothing of the mesmerizing performance of Boucicault as the titular creature. After The Vampire closed, Boucicault moved to the United States and revised his play, staging a two-act version renamed The Phantom in 1856. The Vampire has languished in relative obscurity, with no published edition nor critical commentary, since the mid-nineteenth century.

Boucicault's original handwritten script provides the basis for this first full edition of his innovative tour de force. Similarly, a manuscript of The Phantom, updated by Boucicault for an 1873 production, offers audiences a new version of this influential play. The Vampire and The Phantom can now take their proper place in the lineage of vampire literature that began with John William Polidori and continues to this day.

Edited by: Matthew Knight, Gary D. Rhodes
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 10mm
ISBN: 9781837721504
ISBN 10: 1837721505
Series: Gothic Originals
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 25 September 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Matthew Knight is an associate librarian at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he teaches Irish History and works with the Dion Boucicault Theatre Collection. Gary D. Rhodes is professor of media at Oklahoma Baptist University. He is the author of several books, including Vampires in Silent Cinema, The Birth of the American Horror Film, and The Perils of Moviegoing in America.