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Time in Romantic Theatre

✍ Scribed by Frederick Burwick

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2022
Tongue
English
Leaves
305
Category
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✦ Synopsis

The shift in temporal modalities of Romantic Theatre was the consequence of internal as well as external developments: internally, the playwright was liberated from the old imperative of “Unity of Time” and the expectation that the events of the play must not exceed the hours of a single day; externally, the new social and cultural conformance to the time-keeping schedules of labour and business that had become more urgent with the industrial revolution. In reviewing the theatre of the Romantic era, this monograph draws attention to the ways in which theatre reflected the pervasive impact of increased temporal urgency in social and cultural behaviour. The contribution this book makes to the study of drama in the early nineteenth century is a renewed emphasis on time as a prominent element in Romantic dramaturgy, and a reappraisal of the extensive experimentation on how time functioned.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: Introduction: Keeping Time on Stage
Chapter 2: Flashback and Flashforward
Thomas Holcroft, Man of Ten Thousand
Chapter 3: The Fatal Hour
Christopher Marlowe, Faustus. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
Edward Fitzball, The Devil’s Elixir
Destiny Drama: From Classical Greek to Naturalism
Tragic Fatalism
Friedrich Schiller, The Robbers and Wallenstein
George Lillo to Thomas John Dibdin, The Fatal Curiosity
Joanna Baillie, Constantine Paleologus
Edward Fitzball, Der Freischütz
Matthew Gregory Lewis, One O’Clock; or, The Wood Daemon
James Robinson Planché, The Vampire
Edward Fitzball, The Flying Dutchman
Chapter 4: Synoptic Time
The Long Rifle
Dennis Lawler, Industry and Idleness
Henry M. Milner, The Gambler’s Fate; or, A Lapse of Twenty Years
William Thomas Moncrieff, The Heart of London! or, A Sharper’s Progress
Douglas Jerrold, Ambrose Gwinett
Chapter 5: Time Stopped
Chapter 6: Time Replayed
Arden of Faversham
Chateau Bromege; or, The Clock Struck Four
Edward Fitzball, Jonathan Bradford; or, The Murder at the Road-side Inn
Chapter 7: Longitudinal Time
Shipwreck and Longitude
John H. Amherst, The Shipwreck of the Grosvenor East Indiaman
Douglas Jerrold, The Press-Gang; or, Archibald of the Wreck
Richard Raymond. The Wreck of the Leander Frigate
The North Pole; or, The Arctic Expedition
Chapter 8: Alternate Time
Douglas William Jerrold, Popular Felons
Joanna Baillie, The Dream
The Murderer’s Dream; or, The Abbey of Glenthorn
William Thomas Moncrieff, The Somnambulist; or, The Phantom of the Village
Isaac Pocock. Tuckitomba; or, The Obi Sorceress
Chapter 9: Forgotten Time
Shakespeare, King Lear
Moncrieff, The Lear of Private Life
Pitt, The Eddystone Elf
Mary Russell Mitford, Sadak and Kalasrade; or, The Waters of Oblivion
Horace Smith, The Absent Apothecary
Byron, Manfred
Chapter 10: Epic Time
The Marriage of Camacho; or, All Correct
William Barrymore, The Crusaders! Or Jerusalem Delivered
William Thomas Moncrieff, Roderic the Goth; or, The Vision of the Cavern
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

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