British Romantic Drama

Author : Terence Allan Hoagwood,Daniel P. Watkins
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838637434

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British Romantic Drama by Terence Allan Hoagwood,Daniel P. Watkins Pdf

The present volume attempts a systematic explanation of various dimensions of Romantic drama by foregrounding both the theoretical and practical questions bearing on Romantic drama in its historical situation. In this effort, the volume intentionally gravitates toward discussion of lesser-known works of the period, rather than such major dramas as Manfred or Prometheus Unbound. This is because the poetic dramas by Byron and Shelley have already been the subject of many useful historicist investigations, and also because lesser-known works - for instance, the dramas of Scott, Wordsworth's Borderers, and the many revolutionary and counter-revolutionary dramas of the period - provide avenues into historical and ideological issues that cannot be adequately addressed by exclusive attention to dramas long recognized as canonical.

Author : Keir Elam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351871181

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Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama by Keir Elam Pdf

As theatre and drama of the Romantic Period undergo a critical reassessment among scholars internationally, the contributions of women as playwrights, actresses, and managers are also being revalued. This volume, which brings together leading British, North American, and Italian critics, is a crucial step towards reclaiming the importance of women's dramatic and theatrical activities during the period. Writing for the theatre implied assuming a public role, a hazardous undertaking for women who, especially after the French Revolution, were assigned to the private, primarily domestic, sphere. As the contributors examine the covert strategies women used to become full participants in the public theatre, they shed light on the issue of women's agency, expressed both through the writing of highly politicized or ethicized drama, as in the case of Elizabeth Inchbald or Joanna Baillie, and through women's professional practice as theatre managers and stage producers, as in the case of Elizabeth Vestris and Jane Scott. Among the topics considered are women's history plays, domesticity, ethics and sexuality in women's closet drama, the politics of drama and performance, and the role of women as managers and producers. Specialists in performance studies, Romantic Period drama, and women's writing will find the essays both challenging and inspiring.

Author : Wendy C. Nielsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611494303

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Women Warriors in Romantic Drama by Wendy C. Nielsen Pdf

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama advances scholarship on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century theater by bringing together, for the first time, female and male dramatists as well as British, German, Irish, and French writers, thinkers, actors, and philosophers. This transnational perspective allows Women Warriors in Romantic Drama to make the provocative claim that in some instances, the violence of the French Revolution--and especially women's participation in it--advances proto-feminist concerns.

Author : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521662249

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Women in British Romantic Theatre by Catherine Burroughs Pdf

First published in 2000, this collection of essays focuses on women theatre artists in the romantic period.

Author : Jeffrey N. Cox,Michael Gamer
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781551112985

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The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama by Jeffrey N. Cox,Michael Gamer Pdf

The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost exclusively on “closet dramas” rarely performed on stage, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama instead provides a broad sampling of works representative of the full range of the drama of the period. It includes the dramatic work of canonical Romantic poets (Samuel Coleridge’s Remorse, Percy Shelley’s The Cenci, and Lord Byron’s Sardanapalus) and important plays by women dramatists (Hannah Cowley’s A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Elizabeth Inchbald’s Every One Has His Fault, and Joanna Baillie’s Orra). It also provides a selection of popular theatrical genres—from melodrama and pantomime to hippodrama and parody—most popular in the period, featuring plays by George Colman the Younger, Thomas John Dibdin, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. In short, this is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive anthology of Romantic drama ever published. The introduction by the editors provides an informative overview of the drama and stage practices of the Romantic Period. The anthology also provides copious supplementary materials, including an Appendix of reviews and contemporary essays on the theater, a Glossary of Actors and Actresses, and a guide to further reading. Each of the ten plays has been fully edited and annotated.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1526 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Romantic Drama Films by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Cass,Larry H. Peer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754660516

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Romantic Border Crossings by Jeffrey Cass,Larry H. Peer Pdf

Romantic Border Crossings participates in the movement towards 'otherness' in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties surrounding comparative studies of British, American, and European literature and culture. Spanning a wide range of authors and topics that includes Elizabeth Inchbald, Gérard de Nerval, Jacobinism, Goethe, the Gothic, Orientalism, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Anglo-American conflicts, the collection constitutes a rethinking of the divisions that continue to haunt Romantic studies.

Author : Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027234414

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Romantic Drama by Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie Pdf

It does not treat Romanticism as a limited "period" dominated by some construed singular master-ethos or dialectic; rather, it follows the literary patterns and dynamics of Romanticism as a flow of interactive currents across geocultural frontiers

Author : P. Mortensen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230512207

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British Romanticism and Continental Influences by P. Mortensen Pdf

During the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being 'inundated' by pernicious literary translations imported from the European Continent. British Romanticism and Continental Influences discusses Romantic writers' complex and ambivalent responses to this threatening literary invasion. Confronted with foreign texts that seemed both attractive and repulsive, Mortensen argues, Romantic writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge publicly distanced themselves from European sensationalism, even as they assimilated and revised its conventions in their own writing.

Author : Diane Piccitto,Terry F. Robinson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472129768

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The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830 by Diane Piccitto,Terry F. Robinson Pdf

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book places the stage front and center in Romantic scholarship by re-envisioning traditional approaches to artistic and social creation in the period. How, it asks, did dramaturgy and stagecraft influence aesthetic and sociopolitical concerns? How does a focus on visuality expand our understanding of the historical experience of theatergoing? In what ways did stage performance converge with visual culture beyond the theater? How did extratheatrical genres engage with theatrical sight and spectacle? Finally, how does a focus on dramatic vision change the way we conceive of Romanticism itself? The volume’s essays by emerging and established scholars provide exciting and suggestive answers to these questions, along with a more capacious conception of Romantic theater as a locus of visual culture that reached well beyond playhouse walls.

Author : Frederick Burwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1139476998

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Romantic Drama by Frederick Burwick Pdf

Drama in the Romantic period underwent radical changes affecting theatre performance, acting, and audience. Theatres were rebuilt and expanded to accommodate larger audiences, and consequently acting styles and the plays themselves evolved to meet the expectations of the new audiences. This book examines manifestations of change in acting, stage design, setting, and the new forms of drama. Actors exercised a persistent habit of stepping out of their roles, whether scripted or not. Burwick traces the radical shifts in acting style from Garrick to Kemble and Siddons, and to Kean and Macready, adding a new dimension to understanding the shift in cultural sensibility from early to later Romantic literature. Eye-witness accounts by theatre-goers and critics attending plays at the major playhouses of London, the provinces, and on the Continent are provided, allowing readers to identify with the experience of being in the theatre during this tumultuous period.

Author : Korbinian Stöckl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110714708

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Love in Contemporary British Drama by Korbinian Stöckl Pdf

Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama. Love in Contemporary British Drama reflects the appeal of love as a topic and driving force in dramatic works with in-depth analyses of eight pivotal plays from the past three decades. Following an interdisciplinary and historical approach, the study collects and condenses theories of love from philosophy and sociology to derive persisting discourses and to examine their reoccurrence and transformation in contemporary plays. Special emphasis is put on narratives of love’s compensatory function and precariousness and on how modifications of these narratives epitomise the peculiarities of emotional life in the social and cultural context of the present. Based on the assumption that drama is especially inclined to draw on shared narratives for representations of love, the book demonstrates that love is both a window to remnants of the past in the present and a proper subject matter for drama in times in which the suitability of the dramatic form has been questioned.

Author : Albert W. Halsall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802043224

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Victor Hugo and the Romantic Drama by Albert W. Halsall Pdf

In this book, Albert W. Halsall presents the first complete treatment in English of Hugo's plays - a history, plot summary, and detailed analysis of all the dramas, from Cromwel and Torquemada to the juvenilia and the epic melodrama Les Burgraves.

Author : James Epstein,David Karr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000342116

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British Jacobin Politics, Desires, and Aftermaths by James Epstein,David Karr Pdf

This book explores the hopes, desires, and imagined futures that characterized British radicalism in the 1790s, and the resurfacing of this sense of possibility in the following decades. The articulation of “Jacobin” sentiments reflected the emotional investments of men and women inspired by the French Revolution and committed to political transformation. The authors emphasize the performative aspects of political culture, and the spaces in which mobilization and expression occurred – including the club room, tavern, coffeehouse, street, outdoor meeting, theater, chapel, courtroom, prison, and convict ship. America, imagined as a site of republican citizenship, and New South Wales, experienced as a space of political exile, widened the scope of radical dreaming. Part 1 focuses on the political culture forged under the shifting influence of the French Revolution. Part 2 explores the afterlives of British Jacobinism in the year 1817, in early Chartist memorialization of the Scottish “martyrs” of 1794, and in the writings of E. P. Thompson. The relationship between popular radicals and the Romantics is a theme pursued in several chapters; a dialogue is sustained across the disciplinary boundaries of British history and literary studies. The volume captures the revolutionary decade’s effervescent yearning, and its unruly persistence in later years.

Author : Sarah Burdett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031154744

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The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 by Sarah Burdett Pdf

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre as an arena in which the significance of the armed woman is constantly remodelled and reappropriated to fulfil diverse ideological functions. Used to challenge as well as to enforce established notions of sex and gender difference, she is fashioned also as an allegorical tool, serving both to condemn and to champion political and social rebellion at home and abroad. Magnifying heroines who appear on stage wielding pistols, brandishing daggers, thrusting swords, and even firing explosives, the study spotlights the intricate and often surprising ways in which the stage amazon interacts with Anglo-French, Anglo-Irish, Anglo-German, and Anglo-Spanish debates at varying moments across the French revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns. At the same time, it foregrounds the extent to which new dramatic genres imported from Europe –notably, the German Sturm und Drang and the French-derived melodrama– facilitate possibilities at the turn of the nineteenth century for a refashioned female warrior, whose degree of agency, destructiveness, and heroism surpasses that of her tragic and sentimental predecessors.