The Romantic Stage: A Many-Sided Mirror

The Romantic Stage A Many-Sided Mirror
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Contents
List of Illustrations
The Romantic Stage:
Holding the Mirror up to Nature and Culture
Editing Romantic Drama:
Problems of Value, Volume, and Venue
PART ONE: CONTEXTUALIZING ROMANTIC THEATRE AND DRAMA
	Theatrical Periodicals and the Ethics of Theatre in the Romantic Age
	Romantic Drama and the Popular Theatre
	The Strange Case of Herr von K: Further Reflections
on the Reception of Kotzebue’s Theatre in Britain
PART TWO: DRAMA ACROSS THE ARTS
	Shakespeare’s Visual Memorability During Romanticism
	Poses and Pauses:
The Theatrical Portrait in English Romanticism
	“A Language in Itself Music”: Salvatore Viganò’s Ballet en Action in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
PART THREE: STAGING THE GOTHIC (FEAR ON STAGE)
	Staging Gothic Flesh: Material and Spectral Bodies in Romantic-Period Theatre
	Matthew G. Lewis’ Theatre: Fear on Stage
	Vampires in Kilts
PART FOUR: TEXTS, THEORIES AND CONTEXTS
	Dramatic Discourse and the Romantic Stance
in Joanna Baillie’s Theatre
	Closet Drama on the Stage of Revolution: Language on Trial in Wordsworth’s The Borderers
	Sardanapalus, or, Romantic Drama between History and Archaeology
	The Sensory and the Ideal: S.T. Coleridge’s Aesthetics in Romantic Theatrical Discourse
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index