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Byron's Historical Dramas (Hardcover)
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Byron's Historical Dramas (Hardcover)
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Byron's poetic reputation has been established in his comic epic
Don Juan and its cognates Beppo and The Vision of Judgment. Poems
lying outside this group are still regarded with some uncertainty.
This study demonstrates that some of Byron's most deeply held
critical and political convictions - but also certain aspects of
his experience over which he had comparatively little conscious
control - found expression in his historical dramas of 1820-21:
Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, and The Two Foscari. In these plays
we find Byron responding with the fullest degree of imaginative
intelligence to his work on the management subcommittee at the
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, the background to which is given its
most extensive treatment yet; to his involvement with the Italian
nationalist movement; to his advocacy of neo-classical dramatic
form and above all to his understanding of Shakespeare and of
Shakespeare's reputation among Romantic critics. In this pioneering
study Richard Lansdown sheds fresh critical and biographical light
on Byron's contribution to the theatre, which will be of great
interest to many studying the Romantics.
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