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Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas - British Tragedy on the Regency Stage (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Romantic Actors, Romantic Dramas - British Tragedy on the Regency Stage (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book reinterprets British dramas of the early-nineteenth
century through the lens of the star actors for whom they were
written. Unlike most playwrights of previous generations, the
writers of British Romantic dramas generally did not work in the
theatre themselves. However, they closely followed the careers of
star performers. Even when they did not directly know actors, they
had what media theorists have dubbed "para-social interactions"
with those stars, interacting with them through the mediation of
mass communication, whether as audience members, newspaper and
memoir readers, or consumers of prints, porcelain miniatures, and
other manifestations of "fan" culture. This study takes an in-depth
look at four pairs of performers and playwrights: Sarah Siddons and
Joanna Baillie, Julia Glover and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edmund
Kean and Lord Byron, and Eliza O'Neill and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
These charismatic performers, knowingly or not, helped to guide the
development of a character-based theatre-from the emotion-dominated
plays made popular by Baillie to the pinnacle of Romantic drama
under Shelley. They shepherded in a new style of writing that had
verbal sophistication and engaged meaningfully with the moral
issues of the day. They helped to create not just new modes of
acting, but new ways of writing that could make use of their
extraordinary talents.
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