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Romantic Tragedies
Reeve Parker
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Description for Romantic Tragedies
hardcover. Tragedies by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley probe England's responses to the French Revolution and the poets' relationships with each other. Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 316 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 690.
Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to avoid the Lord Chamberlain's censorship. Drury Lane rejected both, but fifteen years later Coleridge's revision, Remorse, had spectacular success there, inspiring Shelley's 1819 Roman tragedy, The Cenci, aimed for Covent Garden. Reeve Parker makes a striking case for the power of these intertwined works, written against British hostility to French republican liberties and Regency repression of home-grown agitation. Covertly, Remorse and The Cenci also turn against Wordsworth. Stressing the significance ... Read more
Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to avoid the Lord Chamberlain's censorship. Drury Lane rejected both, but fifteen years later Coleridge's revision, Remorse, had spectacular success there, inspiring Shelley's 1819 Roman tragedy, The Cenci, aimed for Covent Garden. Reeve Parker makes a striking case for the power of these intertwined works, written against British hostility to French republican liberties and Regency repression of home-grown agitation. Covertly, Remorse and The Cenci also turn against Wordsworth. Stressing the significance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521767118
SKU
V9780521767118
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About Reeve Parker
Reeve Parker is Professor of English Emeritus at Cornell University, and is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
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