Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas

British Tragedy on the Regency Stage

AvJames Armstrong

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were written.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-10
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:433 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:233
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031137099

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James Armstrong is an adjunct assistant professor at City College of the City University of New York, USA. He has contributed articles to European Stages, Theatre Notebook, Romard, Shaw, Keats-Shelley Journal, and Dickens Quarterly, and has reviewed books and performances for The Edgar Allan Poe Review, The Dickensian, Theatre Journal, The Shavian, and Performance, Religion, and Spirituality. He is also a playwright and member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

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“Those of us partial to the theatrical aspects of S. T. Coleridge’s literary life have fresh material to explore thanks to James Armstrong’s Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas.” (Julie Carlson, The Coleridge Bulletin, Vol. 62, 2023)

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Age of the Actor.- Chapter 2. The Progress of British Romantic Drama: A Brief Tour.- Chapter 3. Summoning Siddons: Joanna Baillie's Play for the Stage.- Chapter 4. Remorse and a Certain Glover: Coleridge's Unapologetic Dramatics.- Chapter 5. Kean for the Stage: Byron's Self-Fashioning in Manfred.- Chapter 6. Succeeding Siddons: Shelley's Unsung Muse.- Chapter 7. Conclusion: The Long Shadow.