Victory: The Play and Reviews - A Critical Edition

胜利：戏剧和评论 - 评论版

• 批准号: AH/E508898/1
• 负责人: Richard Hand
• 金额: $ 0.85万
• 依托单位: University of South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FE508898%2F1
• 关键词: Victory; Play; Reviews; Critical; Edition

I am under contract with Rodopi to produce a critical edition of Basil MacDonald Hasting's dramatisation of Joseph Conrad's Victory (produced 1919) along with the collected thatre reviews, photojournalism and censor reports of the play. The stage adaptation of Conrad's 1915 novel proved to be a highly successful production enjoying a run of over eighty performances at the Globe Theatre in London with actor-producer Marie Lohr as Lena. Despite the popular success of the play, the reviews of the production were fascinatingly mixed ranging from the laudatory to the systematically destructive. In the adaption, Conrad's Victory - a complex and ambiguous novel - is shifted towards the certainties of melodrama: the play presents a rigidly black and white universe with good and eveil characters. Such melodramatisation is unsurprising in the ocntext of post-Great War popular theatre. Despite the formulaic aspect to the work, the play remains a fine example of the genre of late melodrama and is especially intersting in its characterisation, in particular the depiction of 'foreign' characters in a post-war context and the stage construction of the 'woman-hating' Mr Jones. The implied homosexuality of Jones is not in the least diminished on the stage and yet was overlooked by the notoriously stringent British board of stage censorship - the Lord Chamberlain's office - which despite being concerned that the play was 'lurid' and 'dreadful' in its violence, delighted in the populistic thrills and intrinsic 'literariness' of the Victory adaptation and granted permission for the play to be performed without a single cut being made. The critical edition of the Victory adaptation that I will be editing will form one of the first titles to appear as part of Rodopi's ambitious Conrad Studies series. In addition to reproducing these original texts, I will also provide an extended introduction (as well as detailed annotations and footnotes) which will provide a contextual, historical and theoretical analysis of the play, its genesis and reception. As well as this editorial and original textual work, I will also lead some extracurricular workshops in the drama studio with undergraduate and postgraduate volunteers to explore the play in a practical studio context.

我与Rodopi签订了合同，将制作Basil MacDonald Hasting的戏剧化约瑟夫·康拉德的胜利(制作于1919年)的批评版，以及收集的关于这部剧的评论、摄影新闻和审查报告。这部改编自康拉德1915年小说的舞台剧被证明是一部非常成功的作品，在伦敦的环球剧院上演了80多场，演员兼制片人玛丽·洛尔饰演莉娜。尽管该剧广受欢迎，但对该剧的评论却令人着迷地褒贬不一，从赞誉到系统性的破坏性。在改编版中，康拉德的《胜利》--一部复杂而模棱两可的小说--转向了情节剧的确定性：该剧呈现了一个死板的黑白宇宙，有善良和邪恶的角色。在一战后流行戏剧的背景下，这样的情节戏剧化并不令人惊讶。尽管这部作品有程式化的一面，但该剧仍然是后期情节剧体裁的一个很好的例子，尤其是在其特征方面，特别是在战后背景下对外国角色的描绘，以及对讨厌女人的琼斯先生的舞台构建。琼斯隐含的同性恋身份在舞台上丝毫没有减少，但却被臭名昭著的严格的英国舞台审查委员会--张伯伦勋爵办公室--忽视了。尽管该委员会担心该剧的暴力行为“耸人听闻”和“可怕”，但对改编自“胜利”的民粹主义刺激性和内在的“文学性”感到高兴，并批准该剧在没有任何删减的情况下上演。我将编辑的《胜利》改编的关键版将成为鲁迪雄心勃勃的康拉德研究系列中首批出现的标题之一。除了复制这些原文，我还将提供一个扩展的介绍(以及详细的注释和脚注)，将提供背景，历史和理论分析，它的起源和接受。除了这篇社论和原文，我还将在戏剧工作室与本科生和研究生志愿者一起领导一些课外工作坊，在实践工作室的背景下探索这部戏剧。