Romanticism and Theatrical Experience - Kean, Hazlitt and Keats in the Age of Theatrical News

Provides new theatrical contexts for Romantic-period literary writing, reframing the relationship between theater and poetry in Regency London.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Making of British Theater Audiences: 1. Theater and the daily news; 2. Britain's theatrical press 1800-1830; Part II. Theater and Late Romanticism: 3. Edmund Kean's controversy; 4. Hazlitt's romantic occasionalism; 5. Keats, Kean, and the poetics of interruption; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Jonathan Mulrooney is Professor of English and former Chair of the English Department at the College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts.

Summary

The book uniquely brings together the fields of theater history, print culture, and literature, exploring new contexts around the work of actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats, and reframing the relationship between theater, essays and poetry in Regency London.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Mulrooney, Jonathan (College of the Holy Cross Mulrooney, MULROONEY JONATHAN
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781107183872
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18387-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; Cambridge Studies in Romantici; Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Theatre Studies, Romanticism, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800