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In Romantic Drama, three dozen comparatists join forces for a supranational, crosscultural reexamination of the deep paradigm shifts appearing around the start of the nineteenth century which revolutionized drama as a literary art within the enormous civilization constituted by Europe and her overseas extensions. Romantic pronouncements on the canon and poetics of drama, the symptomatic subject-matters treated by Romantic playwrights, the structural means by which they expressed their view of the world, and regional peculiarities are illuminated from multiple perspectives. The volume aspires to skirt the pitfalls of simplistic genetic or teleological thinking. It does not treat Romanticism as a limited "period" dominated by some construed singular master-ethos or dialectic; rather, it follows the literary patterns and dynamics of Romanticism as a flow of interactive currents across geocultural frontiers. Finally, this involves recognizing the Romantic heritage in literary phenomena reaching into our own times. Thus the Romantic celebration of imagination, creation of a theater of the mind, experience of intertextuality, dissolving of generic boundaries, and embrace of "myth" as a challenge to older "history" figure among the important topics, as do Romantic foreshadowings of Symbolist, Existentialist, and Absurdist drama.This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount: https://www.benjamins.com/series/chlel/chlel.special_offer.romanticism.pdf

Contents

1. Introduction; 2. I. Renewal and Innovation; 3. 1. Shakespeare and the Formation of Romantic Drama in Germany and France (by Furst, Lilian R.); 4. 2. The Reception of the Spanish Theater in European Romanticism (by Hilt, Douglas); 5. 3. "Theater in the Theater" and "Word Theater": Play Thematics and the Breakthrough of Romantic Drama (by Schmeling, Manfred); 6. 4. Illusion and Romantic Drama (by Burwick, Frederick); 7. II. Themes, Styles, Structures; 8. 1. Shakespeare Refracted: Writer, Audience, and Rewriter in French and German Romantice Translations (by Lefevere, Andre); 9. 2. Folklore and Romantic Drama (by Hanak, Miroslav J.); 10. 3. Nationalism and the Romantic Drama in Europe (by Carlson, Marvin); 11. 4.Romantic Redefinitions of the Tragic (by Cox, Jeffrey N.); 12. 4. The Romantic Tragedy of Fate (by Hoffmeister, Gerhart); 13. 5. Empathy and Distance: German Romantic Theories of Acting Reconsidered (by Flaherty, Gloria); 14. 6. What is Romantic Opera? - Toward a Musico-Literary Definition (by Weisstein, Ulrich); 15. III. Affinity, Dissemination, Reception; 16. 1. The Italian Romantic Drama in Its European Context (by Carlson, Marvin); 17. 2. Romantic Drama in the Hispanic World: The Picturesque Mode (by Dowling, John); 18. 3. Polish Romantic Drama in Perspective (by Segel, Harold B.); 19. 4. Russian Romantic Drama: The Case of Griboedov (by Gershkovich, Alexander); 20. 5. Romanticism in Genres of Drama in Bohemia (by Voisine-Jechova, Hana); 21. 6. Romantic Drama in Hungary (by Szegedy-Maszak, Mihaly); 22. 7. Romantic Trends in Scandinavian Drama (by Bisztray, George); 23. 8. From Dark into Light: Nineteenth-Century Romantic Drama in English-Canada (by Plant, Richard); 24. 9. Nineteenth-Century American Drama: A Romantic Quest (by Pladott, Dinnah); 25. 10. The Romantic Theater in Hispanic America (by Carilla, Emilio); 26. IV. The Romantic Legacy; 27. 1. Classic Vision in the Romantic Age: Goethe's Reconstitution of European Drama in Faust II (by Gillespie, Gerald); 28. 2. Romantic Irony and Biedermeier Tragicomedy (by Nemoianu, Virgil); 29. 3. Romantic Cosmic Drama (by Esslin, Martin); 30. 4. The Past is Prologue: The Romantic Heritage in Dramatic Literature (by Gillespie, Gerald); 31. Bibliography; 32. Index