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Title: | Marvellous Matilda: the child on stage | Contributor(s): | Hale, Elizabeth (author) | Publication Date: | 2015 | Open Access: | Yes | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19330 | Open Access Link: | https://theconversation.com/marvellous-matilda-the-child-on-stage-48435 | Abstract: | Along with stage musicals such as Lionel Bart's Oliver! during the 1960s and Billy Eliot, produced by Lee Hall and Elton John in 2005, Matilda is the story of a misunderstood child overcoming adversity to achieve her dreams. All of these shows (and many others) focus on the child protagonist, who is simultaneously the object of pity and admiration. The idealisation of childhood goes back at least to the Romantics. Children, poet William Wordsworth wrote in 1804, have traces of heaven in them, "trailing clouds of glory" until the "shades of the prison house" of human (adult) life close in on them. This very idealisation goes hand in hand with the increased concern for the rights of the child across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | The Conversation (Arts + Culture) | Publisher: | The Conversation Media Group Ltd | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 2201-5639 1441-8681 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200503 British and Irish Literature 190404 Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470504 British and Irish literature 360401 Applied theatre 360403 Drama, theatre and performance studies |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950203 Languages and Literature 950105 The Performing Arts (incl. Theatre and Dance) |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130203 Literature 130104 The performing arts |
HERDC Category Description: | C3 Non-Refereed Article in a Professional Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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