Dramatic Character in the English Romantic Age / / Joseph W. Donohue.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Donohue, Joseph W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1970
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1826
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)

This was the age of the star. For the first time in the history of the theater, the playwright took second place to the actor; the interpretation of the role assumed primary importance in a assessing a performance. It was Mr. Kean's Hamlet first, and Mr. Shakespeare's second.What effects d...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Abbreviations and Citations
• Introduction
• PART I. Dramatic Character and Romantic Drama
• CHAPTER I. The Affective Drama of Situation
• CHAPTER II. The Persistence of the Fletcherian Mode
• CHAPTER III. Affective Drama and the Moment of Response
• CHAPTER IV. Romantic Heroism and Its Milieu
• PART II. Tradition and Innovation in Characters and Plays
• CHAPTER V. The West Indian: Cumberland, Goldsmith, and the Uses of Comedy
• CHAPTER VI. Sheridan's Pizarro: Natural Religion and the Artificial Hero
• CHAPTER VII. The Cenci: The Drama of Radical Innocence
• PART III. Shakespearean Character in the Romantic Age
• CHAPTER VIII. Macbeth and Richard III: Dramatic Character and the Shakespearean Critical Tradition
• CHAPTER IX. Garrick's Shakespeare and Subjective Dramatic Character
• CHAPTER X. Shakespearean Character on the Early Romantic Stage
• CHAPTER XI. Coleridge, Lamb, and the Theater of the Mind
• CHAPTER XII. Hazlitt, Kean, and the Lofty Platform of Imagination
• Conclusion
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
• INDEX