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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
1826 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- CHAPTER 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
- CHAPTER XI. Coleridge, Lamb, and the Theater of the Mind
- CHAPTER XII. Hazlitt, Kean, and the Lofty Platform of Imagination
- Conclusion
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- INDEX