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.

Additional text

'This truly important book - generous in its acknowledgment of other scholars and energizing in its vivid, sharp, entertaining style - expands our sense of Romantic era theater and print culture, advances our sense of Cockneyism in the period, and offers fresh, powerful accounts of Haz-litt and Keats.' Jeffrey N. Cox, The Wordsworth Circle

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Mulrooney
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781316635179
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63517-9
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Illustrations: 6 b/w illus., Raster,schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: 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