Languages of Performance in British Romanticism

The Editors: Lilla Maria Crisafulli is Professor of English in the Faculty of Languages, University of Bologna. She is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Romantic Studies, editor of the interdisciplinary journal La Questione Romantica and member of the editorial board of international literary journals. She has written extensively on English Romanticism and on the cultural relations between Italy and Great Britain.Cecilia Pietropoli is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Bologna. She has published extensively on the reception of the Middle Ages in Romanticism, in particular in Scott’s historical novels and in Romantic poetry. She is currently working on Romantic theatre and drama.

• Contents: Lilla Maria Crisafulli/Cecilia Pietropoli: Introduction – Paul Hamilton: Drama as the Motor of Romantic Theory – Claudia Corti: Discursive Cross-References and Genre Interferences in Romantic Theory and Practice of Dramatic Art – Riccardo Capoferro: The Fall of Prometheus: Form and Ideology in Three Romantic Tragedies – Massimiliano Demata: Francis Jeffrey, the Edinburgh Review and National Theatre – Michael Rossington: Beyond Nation: Shelley’s European Dramas – Lilla Maria Crisafulli: ‘I write every day more earnestly and more seriously’: Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s History Play Castruccio Castrucani – Cecilia Pietropoli: The Story of the Foscaris, a Drama for Two Playwrights: Mary Mitford and Lord Byron – Nicoletta Caputo: Edmund Kean or ‘the Romantic Actor’ – Fabio Liberto: Visions, Dreams and Reality: Charles Lamb and the Inward ‘Topography’ of Shakespeare’s Plays – Fredric V. Bogel: ‘A Personated Passion’: Sentiment, Performance and Mechanism in Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling – Lia Guerra: ‘The Great Theatre of the World’: Edmund Burke’s Dramatic Perspective – Carlotta Farese: From German into English, from Novel into Play: Lovers’ Vows and Das Kind der Liebe – Tomaso Kemeny: Walter Scott and the Ghosts of Melodrama – Serena Baiesi/Fabio Liberto: Appendix - The Romantics’ Debate on Theatre and Drama: a Selected Anthology.