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Romantic tragedies : the dark employments of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley /
"Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to avoid the Lord Chamberlain's censorship. Drury Lane rejected both, but fifteen years later, C...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Collection: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
87. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to avoid the Lord Chamberlain's censorship. Drury Lane rejected both, but fifteen years later, Coleridge's revision, Remorse, had spectacular success there, inspiring Shelley's 1819 Roman tragedy, The Cenci, aimed for Covent Garden. Reeve Parker makes a striking case for the power of these intertwined works, written against British hostility to French republican liberties and Regency repression of home-grown agitation. Covertly, Remorse and The Cenci also turn against Wordsworth. Stressing the significance of subtly repeated imagery and resonances with Virgil, Shakespeare, Racine, Jean-François Ducis and Schiller, Parker's close readings, which are boldly imaginative and decidedly untoward, argue that at the heart of these tragedies lie powerful dramatic uncertainties driven by unstable passions - what he calls, adapting Coleridge's phrase for sorcery, 'dark employments'"-- |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316103760 1316103765 9780511975011 0511975015 9781316099940 1316099946 1316097498 9781316097496 1316099008 9781316099001 1316101487 9781316101483 1316098419 9781316098417 1316100847 9781316100844 1316102254 9781316102251 9781107644076 1107644070 |