The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830 -

The Visual Life of Romantic Theater, 1780-1830

Buch | Hardcover
396 Seiten
2023
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-13288-1 (ISBN)
94,15 inkl. MwSt
Provides fresh perspectives on the Romantic era through a focus on the visual nature and impact of the stage
The Visual Life of Romantic Theater examines the dynamism and vibrancy of stage spectacle and its impact in an era of momentous social upheaval and aesthetic change. Situating theatrical production as key to understanding visuality ca. 1780-1830, this book places the stage front and center in Romantic scholarship by re-envisioning traditional approaches to artistic and social creation in the period. How, it asks, did dramaturgy and stagecraft influence aesthetic and sociopolitical concerns? How does a focus on visuality expand our understanding of the historical experience of theatergoing? In what ways did stage performance converge with visual culture beyond the theater? How did extratheatrical genres engage with theatrical sight and spectacle? Finally, how does a focus on dramatic vision change the way we conceive of Romanticism itself? The volume’s essays by emerging and established scholars provide exciting and suggestive answers to these questions, along with a more capacious conception of Romantic theater as a locus of visual culture that reached well beyond playhouse walls.

Diane Piccitto is Associate Professor of English at Mount Saint Vincent University. Terry F. Robinson is Associate Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto.

Introduction
Romanticism, Visuality, and the Theater | Diane Piccitto and Terry F. Robinson

I. Imagined Scenes

1. The 1794 Macbeth and Its Conjuring Effects: Rethinking Romantic-Era Spectatorship | Terry F. Robinson
2. “Mind-Forg’d Manacles”: The Scenography of the Romantic Prison | Joseph Roach
3. Some Versions of Spectacle: Worldmaking and the Regency Toy Theater | Daniel O’Quinn
4. Conjuring the Space and the Right to Appear in Obi; or Three-Fingered Jack (1800) | Dana Van Kooy

II. Spectacular Bodies
5. “I Saw Othello’s Visage in His Mind”: Visualizing Othello in Nineteenth-Century British Theater | Atesede Makonnen
6. Playing “Alive”: Performing Sculpture on the Romantic Stage | Sophie Thomas
7. “Dresses in Hand”: Mary Rein’s Costume Workshop and the Spectacle of Romantic Theater | Susan E. Brown
8. The Singing Cat: British Audiences, Angelica Catalani, and the Threat of Opera | Uri Erman

III. Performances in Print
9. The Stage in a Page: A Visual Life of Romantic Playbills | Michael Gamer
10. Between Media: Harlequinade’s and Melodrama’s Visuality in Print | Deven M. Parker
11. Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie, Londina Illustrata, and the Visual Life of Regency Theater | Gillian Russell
12. Staging Satire: Gillray and “Caricatura-Sublime” | Heather McPherson
13. Theatrical Spectatorship in Byron’s Cain and Blake’s The Ghost of Abel: From Oblivion to Redemption | Diane Piccitto

Afterword
Romanticism Is Seeing Ghosts | Jonathan Mulrooney

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 61 illustrations, 2 tables
Verlagsort Ann Arbor
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-472-13288-1 / 0472132881
ISBN-13 978-0-472-13288-1 / 9780472132881
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