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Representing Shakespearean tragedy : Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean

Title: Representing Shakespearean tragedy : Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean / by Reiko Oya.
Author: Oya, Reiko, 1965-
Publication: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Description

xii, 244 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Reiko Oya explores theatrical expressions of Shakespearean tragedy in Georgian London and the relations between the representative players of the time - David Garrick, John Philip Kemble and his sister Sarah Siddons, and Edmund Kean - and their close circle of friends." "With subjects ranging from Shakespearean promptbooks to paintings and the poetics of Romanticism, the book offers fascinating insights into the exchange of ideas and inspirations among the cultural luminaries who surrounded the Georgian London stage."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

First paperback ed.: 2010.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Garrick's prologue -- Winding up 'th'untuned and jarring senses' : Garrick, King Lear and contemporary t6heatrical/literary criticism. Adaptation and impersonation : Garrick's King Lear ; The mad monarch and critical reason : periodical writers ; Resisting Garrick : Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare ; Confrontation and evasion : Elizabeth Montagu's Bluestocking viewpoint ; The use of (hyper)criticism : Garrick's postscripts -- 'Who dares do more' : Kemble, Siddons and the question of sublimity in Macbeth. Encountering a stage ghost : Sir Roger, Mr Partridge and Sir Joshua ; Kemble, Siddons and Macbeth ; Materialising the immaterial : the 1794 performance ; 'Ask Reynolds' : the way to paint tragedy ; Punch and the madman : the theatrical career of Edmund Burke -- 'Speak the speech, I pray you' : Kean, Hamlet and the Romantic 'playwrights'. Several mirrors up to nature : Reynolds and Johnson, Blake and Hazlitt ; Readers' Hamlet, actors' Hamlet ; In the theatre of remorse : Coleridge, his friend and his tragedy ; Fables of identity : Keats, Kean and Otho the Great -- Conclusion : Kean's farewell.

ISBN

9780521879859
052187985X
9780521181402
0521181402

LCCN

2007016471

OCLC

ocn123912491
123912491
SCSB-14645182

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library