Frederick Burwick

Romantic Drama

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the radical changes in drama during the Romantic period, tracing how these changes affected theatre performance, acting, and audience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 725g
• ISBN-13: 9780521889674
• ISBN-10: 0521889677
• Artikelnr.: 25856885

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Periscopes into the theatre
2. Nationalism and national character
3. Genre: the realism of fantasy, the fantasy of realism
4. Acting, histrionics, and dissimulation
5. Transvestites, lovers, monsters: character and sexuality
6. Setting: where and elsewhere
7. Gothic and anti-Gothic: comedy and horror
8. Blue-Beard's castle: mischief and misogyny
9. Vampires in kilts.