Romantic tragedies : : the dark employments of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley / / Reeve Parker.
"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...
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| Superior document: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 87 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge ;, New York : : Cambridge University Press,, 2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (318 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "Prowling out for dark employments"
- Part I. Wordsworth: 1. Reading Wordsworth's power: narrative and usurpation in The Borderers; 2. Cradling French Macbeth: managing the art of second-hand Shakespeare; 3. 'In some sort seeing with my proper eyes': Wordsworth and the spectacles of Paris; 4. Drinking up whole rivers: facing Wordsworth's watery discourse
- Part II. Coleridge and Shelley: 5. Osorio's dark employments: tricking out Coleridgean tragedy; 6. Listening to remorse: assuming man's infirmities; 7. Reading Shelley's delicacy.