Description
Book SynopsisSurveying this expanded field of inquiry, Buckley weaves together a coherent formal genealogy of the drama during this period and offers a new, more continuous generic history of modern drama in its first and most turbulent phase of development.
Trade ReviewThe book is both interdisciplinary and highly readable. Choice 2007 Those working on British Romanticism are often monolingual and indeed monocultural and so it is refreshing to see a monograph engaging with France, Britain and Germany in its re-evaluation of the development of modern drama. -- Katherine Astbury French History 2007 Compelling account of the birth of modern drama and its relationship with the French Revolution... Redraws the boundaries of scholarly insight and represents a valuable contribution to the field of Eighteenth-Century Studies. -- Radosveta Getova Modern Language Review 2008 A thought-provoking and intellectually ambitious study. -- Mark Darlow Journal of European Studies 2008 Disciplined and concise with its scope and material, and in this way, it serves as a model for interdisciplinary rigor. -- Wendy C. Nielsen Modern Philology 2010
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Theater of the Revolution
2. The Drama of the Revolution
3. The Revolution and British Theatrical Politics
4. The Fall of Robespierre and the Tragic Imagination
5. Reviving the Revolution: Dantons Tod
Conclusion
Notes
Index
