Byron's Historical DramasClarendon Press, 1992 - 259 頁 Byron's poetic reputation is currently founded on his comic epic Don Juan and its cognates Beppo and The Vision of Judgement. Works 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 1820-1821: Marino Faliero, Sardanapalus, and The Two Foscari. In these plays Byron responds 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. Lansdown illuminates a fascinating but overlooked aspect of Byron's oeuvre in which the literary, the historical, and the political are closely intertwined. |
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... historical themes of the earlier dramas . ) There are two other positive yet contrasting reasons why a concen- tration on the historical plays as a group can be justified critically . The first is that each of Byron's major poetic ...
... historical themes of the earlier dramas . ) There are two other positive yet contrasting reasons why a concen- tration on the historical plays as a group can be justified critically . The first is that each of Byron's major poetic ...
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... historical dramas and in this study of them . We shall see in Chapter I that Byron's first serious dramatic attempt - the first version of Werner - was markedly though lightly influenced by Shakespeare ; the second chapter looks at ...
... historical dramas and in this study of them . We shall see in Chapter I that Byron's first serious dramatic attempt - the first version of Werner - was markedly though lightly influenced by Shakespeare ; the second chapter looks at ...
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... historical fact so strong , ' D. H. Lawrence asked himself in Sea and Sardinia ( chapter 2 ) , ' that what one speare and the Bible . His letters , in particular , are littered with expressions taken from Scott's prose . Still , I think ...
... historical fact so strong , ' D. H. Lawrence asked himself in Sea and Sardinia ( chapter 2 ) , ' that what one speare and the Bible . His letters , in particular , are littered with expressions taken from Scott's prose . Still , I think ...
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