Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821

by Paul Baines

Thriving during a period of profound revolution in Europe, the British Romantic theatre found itself re-examining social and sexual relations in English society. The five plays collected in this edition--the only one of its kind--represent some of the most radical and unusual examples of the drama created during this period. Horace invented gothic melodrama with his incest tragedy, The Mysterious Mother; Robert Southey imagined the theatre as a site...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192833162
• ISBN13: 9780192833167
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"