A Mental Theater: Poetic Drama and Consciousness in the Romantic Age

by Alan Richardson

Book Overview

Certain works of Romantic drama--Prometheus Unbound, Cain, The Cenci--have received a good deal of critical attention, by as a whole the genre has been misunderstood and only slightly considered. Alan Richardson redresses a tradition of critical neglect by considering the works of Romantic drama not as failed stage-plays ("closet drama") but as constituting a new, distinctively Romantic genre. In turning from the contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027102450X
• ISBN13: 9780271024509
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"