The Romantic Stage: A Many-Sided Mirror

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The Romantic Stage A Many-Sided Mirror Copyright Contents List of Illustrations The Romantic Stage: Holding the Mirror up to Nature and Culture Editing Romantic Drama: Problems of Value, Volume, and Venue PART ONE: CONTEXTUALIZING ROMANTIC THEATRE AND DRAMA Theatrical Periodicals and the Ethics of Theatre in the Romantic Age Romantic Drama and the Popular Theatre The Strange Case of Herr von K: Further Reflections on the Reception of Kotzebue’s Theatre in Britain PART TWO: DRAMA ACROSS THE ARTS Shakespeare’s Visual Memorability During Romanticism Poses and Pauses: The Theatrical Portrait in English Romanticism “A Language in Itself Music”: Salvatore Viganò’s Ballet en Action in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound PART THREE: STAGING THE GOTHIC (FEAR ON STAGE) Staging Gothic Flesh: Material and Spectral Bodies in Romantic-Period Theatre Matthew G. Lewis’ Theatre: Fear on Stage Vampires in Kilts PART FOUR: TEXTS, THEORIES AND CONTEXTS Dramatic Discourse and the Romantic Stance in Joanna Baillie’s Theatre Closet Drama on the Stage of Revolution: Language on Trial in Wordsworth’s The Borderers Sardanapalus, or, Romantic Drama between History and Archaeology The Sensory and the Ideal: S.T. Coleridge’s Aesthetics in Romantic Theatrical Discourse Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index