Frederick Burwick

Romantic Drama

Acting and Reacting

• Broschiertes 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: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9780521182416
• ISBN-10: 0521182417
• Artikelnr.: 33153244

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.