In the Shadows of Romance: Romantic Tragic Drama in Germany, England, and France
by Jeffrey N. Cox
Ohio University Press, 2011
Cloth: 978-0-8214-0858-2 | Paper: 978-0-8214-1982-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8214-4379-8
Library of Congress Classification PN1898.E85C68 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.2512
TOC
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS
- Chapter One:
- ROMANTICISM AND TRAGEDY
- I:
- Traditional Tragedy and the Romantic Redefinition of the Tragic
- II:
- Romantic Tragic Drama: The Self, Revolt, and History
- Chapter Two:
- THE FORM OF ROMANTIC TRAGIC DRAMA
- I:
- Romantic Drama and the Dramatic Tradition
- II:
- Monodrama and Melodrama
- Chapter Three:
- SCHILLER AND THE IMPORTANCE OF GERMAN ROMANTIC DRAMA
- I:
- The Quest for a “Romantic Classic”
- II:
- The Achievement of Schiller
- Chapter Four:
- GOETHE AND ROMANTIC DRAMA: VARIATIONS ON A THEME
- I:
- Egmont: The Pattern of Romantic Tragic Drama
- II:
- Variation I: Iphigenia's “Devilish Classicism”
- III:
- Variation II: Faust's Visionary Forms Dramatic
- Chapter Five:
- BERTRAM, BYRON, AND ENGLISH ROMANTIC DRAMA
- I:
- Gothic Melodrama, Monodramatic Psychology, and the Pursuit of the Tragic
- II:
- Maturin and Coleridge: Identity and Morality
- III:
- Byron and Tragedy: Mysteries and Histories
- Chapter Six:
- SHELLEY'S THE CENCI: THE TRAGEDY OF “SELF-ANATOMY”
- I:
- Culture and Anarchy: Society and the “principle of self”
- II:
- Shelley and Shakespeare: The Ravages of “Self-Anatomy”
- III:
- Cenci and Beatrice: Shelley's Dramaturgy of Self and Innocence
- IV:
- The Theater of Self-Knowledge
- Chapter Seven:
- NEOCLASSICAL TRAGEDY, MELODRAMA, AND FRENCH ROMANTIC DRAMA
- I:
- Chenier's Charles IX: Tragedy and History
- II:
- The Search for a Form and the Avoidance of Tragedy
- III:
- The Theater of Revolt
- Chapter Eight:
- MUSSET'S LORENZACCIO: INNOCENCE, EXPERIENCE, AND THE TRAGEDY OF REVOLT
- I:
- Lorenzo and Florence: Innocence and Experience
- II:
- Lorenzo: The Modern Brutus
- III:
- The Tragedy of Revolt
- Chapter Nine:
- KLEIST'S PRINCE FRIEDRICH OF HOMBURG: THE TRAGEDY OF NON-TRAGIC MAN
- I:
- Prince Friedrich and Historical Drama: The Chaos of Chance
- II:
- Prince Friedrich: Beautiful Soul or Case Study?
- III:
- The Elector: Master Builder or Tyrant?
- IV:
- The Hero and the Educator: Culture, Mortality, and Illusion
- V:
- Romantic Tragic Drama and Modern Tragicomedy
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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