Byron at the theatre / edited by Peter Cochran.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cochran, Peter, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Verse drama, English--History and criticism.

Verse drama, English.

Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824--Dramatic works.

Byron, George Gordon Byron.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Byron at the Theatre is a collection of essays by a wide spectrum of European scholars, dealing Other Byron's dramas in a variety of ways. It starts Other a long and detailed introduction on Byron and Drury Lane, incorporating much recent research done on the riotous and squalid conditions of the theatre in Regency London - conditions which go far towards explaining Byron's distaste for the idea of theatrical success. There follows a chapter about the influence on Byron of Vittorio Alfieri, a ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; BYRON AND DRURY LANE; BYRON, ALFIERI, AND THE WRITING OF PLAYS; TWENTIETH CENTURY PRODUCTIONS OF CAIN; BYRON AND BAILLIE'S BALLS; BYRON AS EUPHORION IN GOETHE'S FAUST; "WHO SHALL OPPOSE THAT LAW?"; AT THE BALLET; THE GOTHIC AND THE NEOCLASSICAL IN BYRON'S MARINO FALIERO; BYRON AND PUSHKIN AS CHARACTERS IN TOM STOPPARD'S PLAYS; LORD BYRON'S THE DEFORMED TRANSFORMED; BYRON'S DRAMATICS AT HARROW, SOUTHWELL AND PISA; UNTRAMMELLED WILL AND SUPPRESSED PASSIONS; APPENDIX; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Papers from a conference on Byron at the theatre, organised by the Newstead Byron Society and the Midland Romantic Seminar at Nottingham Trent University on May 12th, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-211) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-19051-2

9786612190513

1-4438-0668-4

OCLC:

823386204