In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women

by Julie A. Carlson

Book Overview

English Romanticism has long been considered an 'undramatic' and 'anti-theatrical' age, yet Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats all wrote plays and viewed them as central to England's poetic and political reform. In the Theatre of Romanticism analyses these plays, in the context of London theatre at the time, and argues that Romantic discourse on theatre is crucial to constructions of nationhood in the period. The book focuses primarily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521039630
• ISBN13: 9780521039635
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"