TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parker,Reeve
TI  - Romantic tragedies: the dark employments of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley 
T2  - Cambridge studies in Romanticism
AV  - PR719.V4 P37 2011
U1  - 822/.7/09 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Wordsworth, William,
KW  - Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
KW  - Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
KW  - Verse drama, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English drama (Tragedy)
KW  - English drama
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-295) and index; 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
N2  - "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-Francois 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'"--
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