Romanticism and Theatrical Experience

Romanticism and Theatrical Experience
Author: Jonathan Mulrooney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316877396

Bringing together studies in theater history, print culture, and literature, this book offers a new consideration of Romantic-period writing in Britain. Recovering a wide range of theatrical criticism from newspapers and periodicals, some of it overlooked since its original publication in Regency London, Jonathan Mulrooney explores new contexts for the work of the actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats. Kean's ongoing presence as a figure in the theatrical news presented readers with a provocative re-imagining of personal subjectivity and a reworking of the British theatrical tradition. Hazlitt and Keats, in turn, imagined the essayist and the poet along similar theatrical lines, reframing Romantic prose and poetics. Taken together, these case studies illustrate not only theater's significance to early nineteenth-century Londoners, but also the importance of theater's textual legacies for our own re-assessment of 'Romanticism' as a historical and cultural phenomenon.

Romanticism and Theatrical Experience

Romanticism and Theatrical Experience
Author: Jonathan Mulrooney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107183871

Provides new theatrical contexts for Romantic-period literary writing, reframing the relationship between theater and poetry in Regency London.

Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama

Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama
Author: Keir Elam
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351871188

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.

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830
Author: Diane Piccitto
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2023-05-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0472132881

Provides fresh perspectives on the Romantic era through a focus on the visual nature and impact of the stage

Time in Romantic Theatre

Time in Romantic Theatre
Author: Frederick Burwick
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2022-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 303096079X

The shift in temporal modalities of Romantic Theatre was the consequence of internal as well as external developments: internally, the playwright was liberated from the old imperative of “Unity of Time” and the expectation that the events of the play must not exceed the hours of a single day; externally, the new social and cultural conformance to the time-keeping schedules of labour and business that had become more urgent with the industrial revolution. In reviewing the theatre of the Romantic era, this monograph draws attention to the ways in which theatre reflected the pervasive impact of increased temporal urgency in social and cultural behaviour. The contribution this book makes to the study of drama in the early nineteenth century is a renewed emphasis on time as a prominent element in Romantic dramaturgy, and a reappraisal of the extensive experimentation on how time functioned.

In the Theatre of Romanticism

In the Theatre of Romanticism
Author: Julie A. Carlson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 1994-04-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521444286

English Romanticism has long been considered an 'undramatic' and 'anti-theatrical' age, yet Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats all wrote plays and viewed them as central to England's poetic and political reform. In the Theatre of Romanticism analyses these plays, in the context of London theatre at the time, and argues that Romantic discourse on theatre is crucial to constructions of nationhood in the period. The book focuses primarily on Coleridge and on the middle stage of his career, during which he wrote most extensively for and about the theatre. But its discussion of anxieties about women in Coleridge's plays applies just as forcefully to the history plays of the second-generation romantic poets, and to the best-known romantic writers on theatre: Hazlitt, Hunt and Lamb. Unlike the few existing studies of romantic drama, this study considers the plays not as closet drama or 'mental theatre', but as theatrical contributions to the debate sparked off by the Revolution in France.

Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840

Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770-1840
Author: Jane Moody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2007-07-30
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521039864

This book explores British illegitimate theatre towards the end of the eighteenth century.

Staël, Romanticism and Revolution

Staël, Romanticism and Revolution
Author: John Claiborne Isbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009362720

Combating two centuries of sexism, this radical overview of Staël in context reveals a major player in Revolution and Romanticism.