'Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine, Dramatist, with a special study of Mahomet (1890) and its contexts'

Date(s): 2015

Creator(s): Tetens, Kristan

Scope & Content: PhD thesis submitted to the School of English, University of Leicester. The author provides a comprehensive survey of Caine's writing for the stage and his collaborations with leading actors and managers. She argues that Caine emerges as a major dramatist whos work complicates long-accepted distinctions between 'romance' and 'realism' as generic categories. She proceeds to study Caine's 'Mahomet', a four-act historical drama based on the life of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, written in 1890 which was banned by the Lord Chamberlain in his capacity as licensor of stage plays. Kristan Tetens situates 'Mahomet' within its political and religious contexts at a specific moment in British imperial history.

Language: English

Extent: 279 pages

Item name: thesis

Collection: Manuscript Archive

Level: ITEM

ID number: MS 14173

Record class: Private

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