Dramatic character in the English Romantic age /

• Main Author: Donohue, Joseph W., 1935- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1970.
• Subjects: Χαρακτήρες και χαρακτηριστικά στη λογοτεχνία; Αγγλικό δράμα > 18ος αίωνας > Ιστορία και κριτική.; Ρομαντισμός > Μεγάλη Βρετανία > Ιστορία > 18ος αιώνας.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.