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Romantic drama : = acting and reacting /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Romantic drama :/ Frederick Burwick.
Reminder of title:	acting and reacting /
Author:	Burwick, Frederick,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 345 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Theater - History - 18th century. - Great Britain -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511770500
ISBN:	9780511770500 (ebook)

Romantic drama : = acting and reacting /
Burwick, Frederick,

Romantic drama :acting and reacting /Frederick Burwick. - 1 online resource (viii, 345 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Periscopes into the theatre -- Nationalism and national character -- Genre: the realism of fantasy, the fantasy of realism -- Acting: histrionics and dissimulation -- Transvestites, lovers, monsters: character and sexuality -- Setting: where and elsewhere -- Gothic and anti-Gothic: comedy and horror -- Blue-Beard's castle: mischief and misogyny -- Vampires in kilts.

Drama in the Romantic period underwent radical changes affecting theatre performance, acting, and audience. Theatres were rebuilt and expanded to accommodate larger audiences, and consequently acting styles and the plays themselves evolved to meet the expectations of the new audiences. This book examines manifestations of change in acting, stage design, setting, and the new forms of drama. Actors exercised a persistent habit of stepping out of their roles, whether scripted or not. Burwick traces the radical shifts in acting style from Garrick to Kemble and Siddons, and to Kean and Macready, adding a new dimension to understanding the shift in cultural sensibility from early to later Romantic literature. Eye-witness accounts by theatre-goers and critics attending plays at the major playhouses of London, the provinces, and on the Continent are provided, allowing readers to identify with the experience of being in the theatre during this tumultuous period.

ISBN: 9780511770500 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

803585
Theater
--History--Great Britain--18th century.

LC Class. No.: PN2593 / .B87 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 792.0942

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