Dramatic character in the English Romantic age /
This was the age of the star. For the first time in the history of the theater, the playwright took second place to the actor; the interpretation of the role assumed primary importance in a assessing a performance. It was Mr. Kean's Hamlet first, and Mr. Shakespeare's second.What effects d...
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Princeton, N.J.,
Princeton University Press,
1970.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations and Citations
- Introduction
- Part I. Dramatic Character and Romantic Drama
- Chapter I. The Affective Drama of Situation
- Chapter II. The Persistence of the Fletcherian Mode
- Chapter III. Affective Drama and the Moment of Response
- Chapter IV. Romantic Heroism and Its Milieu
- Part II. Tradition and Innovation in Characters and Plays
- Chapter V. The West Indian: Cumberland, Goldsmith, and the Uses of Comedy
- Chapter VI. Sheridan's Pizarro: Natural Religion and the Artificial Hero
- Chapter VII. The Cenci: The Drama of Radical Innocence
- Part III. Shakespearean Character in the Romantic Age
- Chpter VIII. Macbeth and Richard III: Dramatic Character and the Shakespearean Critical Tradition
- Chapter IX. Garrick's Shakespeare and Subjective Dramatic Character
- Chapter X. Shakespearean Character on the Early Romantic Stage
- Chpter XI. Coleridge, Lamb, and the Theater of the Mind
- Chapter XII. Hazlitt, Kean, and the Lofty Platform of Imagination.
