Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821

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  • Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821 Book Detail

  • Author : Paul Baines
  • Release Date : 2000
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Genre : English drama
  • Pages : 436
  • ISBN 13 : 9780192833167
  • File Size : 22,22 MB
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Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821 by Paul Baines PDF Summary

Book Description: During the period of European revolutions the British Romantic theatre found itself reexaming the whole cast of social and sexual relations. The five plays grouped here represent some of the most radical and unusual examples of Romantic drama: Horace Walpole invented gothic melodrama with hisincest tragedy, The Mysterious Mother (1768), and Robert Southey imagined the theatre as a site of revolutionary protest in Wat Tyler (1794). Joanna Baillie's psychological case study in aristocratic hatred, De Monfort (1768) was thought too alarming to have been written by a woman, while ElizabethInchbald's hugely successful Lovers' Vows (1798) was sufficiently subversive for Jane Austen to analyse some of its illicit potential in Mansfield Park (1814). Byron's strenuous tragedy The Two Foscari (1821) explores an inescapable conflict between parental love and political authority. The stageimagined by these writers is an arena of tense and embattled desires, with sexual and political claims mapped onto the same conflicts of power. This exciting edition is the only one of its kind and provides the first authorized texts of the plays complete with fully-researched reference to majorauthorial revision.

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