Benjamin Poore
Biographic Data
| ID | 6813451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Poore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Poore |
| SIGNATURE | POORE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2271-9337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
History plays in the twenty-first century
New plays set in the past continue to make up a significant proportion of theatre productions in England.This article argues that there is much to gain by recognising such works as 'history plays', deploying a broad understanding of this grouping as constituting plays that make a claim to be set in the past.We draw on a range of plays, including as case studies Moira Buffini's Handbagged, Peter Morgan's The Audience, and Lucy Kirkwood's The Welki…
Why Leonard Bast Had To Be Killed
The misfortunes of the clerk Leonard Bast in E. M. Forster's Howards End have frequently been read as a symptom of modernism's disdain for the lower-middle classes and their aspirations for cultural education. But Howards End is better seen as an extended meditation on the relationship of art and labour, and a criticism of the aesthetic education that Bast receives from the wealthy Schlegel sisters. Using Jacques Rancière's idea that aesthetic fo…
Neo-Victorian Villains
Neo-Victorian Villains is the first edited collection to examine the afterlives of such Victorian villains as Dracula, Svengali, Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde, exploring their representation in neo-Victorian drama and fiction. In addition, Neo-Victorian Villains examines a number of supposedly villainous types, from the spirit medium and the femme fatale to the imperial ‘native’ and the ventriloquist, and traces their development from Victorian…
The Transformed Beast
After only one eight-part season, the television series Penny Dreadful, a Showtime/Sky Atlantic co-production, had already become an international success with an active and vocal fanbase. Yet the relationship of the show (which was created and written by John Logan) to the Victorian serial fiction genre, penny dreadfuls, is an oblique one, and worth unpicking. The first part of this article focuses on the task of teasing out the connections betw…
Reclaiming the Dame
Queen Victoria remains one of western culture's most instantly recognizable figures, and continues to appear in comic takes on history and historical adventure. This article aims to provide an overview of the lampooning of Queen Victoria, her public image and private proclivities, a phenomenon that is now in its third century. It focuses in particular on the strange recurrence of Queen Victoria being played by a man, which reached its peak onstag…
The Transformed Beast
After only one eight-part season, the television series Penny Dreadful, a Showtime/Sky Atlantic co-production, had already become an international success with an active and vocal fanbase. Yet the relationship of the show (which was created and written by John Logan) to the Victorian serial fiction genre, penny dreadfuls, is an oblique one, and worth unpicking. The first part of this article focuses on the task of teasing out the connections betw…
Reclaiming the Dame
Queen Victoria remains one of western culture's most instantly recognizable figures, and continues to appear in comic takes on history and historical adventure. This article aims to provide an overview of the lampooning of Queen Victoria, her public image and private proclivities, a phenomenon that is now in its third century. It focuses in particular on the strange recurrence of Queen Victoria being played by a man, which reached its peak onstag…
Reclaiming the Dame
Queen Victoria remains one of western culture's most instantly recognizable figures, and continues to appear in comic takes on history and historical adventure. This article aims to provide an overview of the lampooning of Queen Victoria, her public image and private proclivities, a phenomenon that is now in its third century. It focuses in particular on the strange recurrence of Queen Victoria being played by a man, which reached its peak onstag…
The Transformed Beast
After only one eight-part season, the television series Penny Dreadful, a Showtime/Sky Atlantic co-production, had already become an international success with an active and vocal fanbase. Yet the relationship of the show (which was created and written by John Logan) to the Victorian serial fiction genre, penny dreadfuls, is an oblique one, and worth unpicking. The first part of this article focuses on the task of teasing out the connections betw…
Neo-Victorian Villains
Neo-Victorian Villains is the first edited collection to examine the afterlives of such Victorian villains as Dracula, Svengali, Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde, exploring their representation in neo-Victorian drama and fiction. In addition, Neo-Victorian Villains examines a number of supposedly villainous types, from the spirit medium and the femme fatale to the imperial ‘native’ and the ventriloquist, and traces their development from Victorian…
Why Leonard Bast Had To Be Killed
The misfortunes of the clerk Leonard Bast in E. M. Forster's Howards End have frequently been read as a symptom of modernism's disdain for the lower-middle classes and their aspirations for cultural education. But Howards End is better seen as an extended meditation on the relationship of art and labour, and a criticism of the aesthetic education that Bast receives from the wealthy Schlegel sisters. Using Jacques Rancière's idea that aesthetic fo…
History plays in the twenty-first century
New plays set in the past continue to make up a significant proportion of theatre productions in England.This article argues that there is much to gain by recognising such works as 'history plays', deploying a broad understanding of this grouping as constituting plays that make a claim to be set in the past.We draw on a range of plays, including as case studies Moira Buffini's Handbagged, Peter Morgan's The Audience, and Lucy Kirkwood's The Welki…
Art (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (2 works) · History (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)