Reiko Oya

Representing Shakespearean Tragedy

Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines Shakespearean tragedy as performed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780521181402
• ISBN-10: 0521181402
• Artikelnr.: 32303920

Autorenporträt

Reiko Oya is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business and Commerce at Keio University, Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Garrick's prologue; 1. Winding up 'th'untuned and jarring senses': Garrick
King Lear
and contemporary theatrical/literary criticism; 2. 'Who dares do more': Kemble
Siddons
and the question of sublimity in Macbeth; 3. 'Speak the speech
I pray you': Kean
Hamlet
and the Romantic 'playwrights'; Conclusion: Kean's farewell.