Hans Christian Andersen and the Romantic Theatre: A Study of Stage Practices in the Prenaturalistic Scandinavian Theatre

by Frederick J Marker

The romantic theatre, with all its imaginative vigour and eagerness for experimentation, appeals to those who like total theatre - unabashed, unashamedly spectacular, unforgettably pathetic. Critics who take a purely literary approach the drama often neglect or malign the theatre of the nineteenth century. Yet even in terms of literary, influence it is a hazardous to ignore the debt the exponents of naturalism owed to the drama of the prenaturalistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487579136
• ISBN13: 9781487579135
• Release Date: December 1971
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher