Re-viewing Romantic Drama

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ID12880628
AuthorsJeffrey N Cox (0000-0002-6389-5871, University of Colorado System, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume1
Issue1
Pages**-**
Publication date2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLiterature Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00096.x
OpenAlexW2029999479
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited25

We are in the midst of a revival of interest in the drama and theater of the Romantic period that has brought about new editions, exciting scholarship, and a surprisingly large number of stage productions of Romantic plays. The Romantic period offers us a wide range of interesting dramatic texts including poetic tragedies by canonical authors, innovative plays by women writers, and successful theatrical pieces by long-forgotten playwrights such as the Dibdins. We will best understand these works when we move beyond the notion that the period saw an irrevocable divorce between the stage and the page to see how different kinds of texts offer different kinds of performances. We need to read poetic tragedies alongside harlequinades, patent house comedy of manners alongside the plays offered at the Royal Circus

Aesthetics · Art · Comedy · Drama · Literature · Period (music · Poetry · Political science · Romance · Romanticism · Scholarship · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theater, Performance, and Music History

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