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The vampire originally took on its characteristics in the public imagination from a series of plays written and performed by some of the most important figures in nineteenth-century theater. This work is the first major study devoted to the vampire on stage; the author discusses the figure that preceded Dracula--Lord Ruthven--the subject of more than forty English, French, and American plays. The principal works are melodramas, but the vampire theme was also treated in tragedy, opera, ballet, burlesque, farce, burletta, and satire.Stuart, Roxana is the author of 'Stage Blood Vampires of the 19Th-Century Stage', published 1995 under ISBN 9780879726591 and ISBN 0879726598.
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