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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Romantic tragedies
    sub title: the dark employments of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley
  name:
    name part: Parker, Reeve.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to avoid the Lord Chamberlain's censorship. Drury Lane rejected both, but fifteen years later, Coleridge's revision, Remorse, had spectacular success there, inspiring Shelley's 1819 Roman tragedy, The Cenci, aimed for Covent Garden. Reeve Parker makes a striking case for the power of these intertwined works, written against British hostility to French republican liberties and Regency repression of home-grown agitation. Covertly, Remorse and The Cenci also turn against Wordsworth. Stressing the significance of subtly repeated imagery and resonances with Virgil, Shakespeare, Racine, Jean-François Ducis and Schiller, Parker's close readings, which are boldly imaginative and decidedly untoward, argue that at the heart of these tragedies lie powerful dramatic uncertainties driven by unstable passions - what he calls, adapting Coleridge's phrase for sorcery, 'dark employments.'
  table of contents: Introduction: "Prowling out for dark employments" -- Part I. Wordsworth: 1. Reading Wordsworth's power: narrative and usurpation in The Borderers -- 2. Cradling French Macbeth: managing the art of second-hand Shakespeare -- 3. 'In some sort seeing with my proper eyes': Wordsworth and the spectacles of Paris -- 4. Drinking up whole rivers: facing Wordsworth's watery discourse -- Part II. Coleridge and Shelley -- 5. Osorio's dark employments: tricking out Coleridgean tragedy -- 6. Listening to remorse: assuming man's infirmities -- 7. Reading Shelley's delicacy.
  note: Reeve Parker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Verse drama, English
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English drama (Tragedy)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    temporal: 18th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Romanticism
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wordsworth, William
      name part: 1770-1850
    topic: Dramatic works
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
      name part: 1772-1834
    topic: Dramatic works
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
      name part: 1792-1822
    topic: Dramatic works
  classification: PR719.V4 P37 2011
  classification: 822/.7/09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 87
  identifier: 9780521767118 (hardback)
  identifier: 0521767113 (hardback)
  identifier: 2010037674
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100901
    record change date: 20150922113547.0
    record identifier: in00002755076