Thriving during a period of profound revolution in Europe, the British Romantic theatre found itself re-examining social and sexual relations in English society. The five plays collected in this edition--the only one of its kind--represent some of the most radical and unusual examples of the drama created during this period. Horace invented gothic melodrama with his incest tragedy, The Mysterious Mother; Robert Southey imagined the theatre as a site of revolutionary protest in Wat Tyler (1794); Joanna Baillie's psychological case study in aristocratic hatred in De Monfort (1768) was thought too alarming to have been written by a woman, while Elizabeth Inchbald's hugely successful Lover's Vows (1798) was sufficiently subversive for Jane Austen to analyze some of its illicit potential in Mansfield Park (1814); Byron's strenuous tragedy The Two Foscari (1821) explores an inescapable conflict between parental love and political authority. The stage imagined by these writers is an arena of culturally charged issues--political, sexual, and socia--paralleling the ones being debated and decided in society at large.
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`a valuable collection. The anthology is the most effective way of ensuring that the teaching of literature does not simply revolve around the 'major' writers, and Oxford University Press should be applauded for publishing a collection of this kind. . . . useful introduction' TLS 27/04/01
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Wat Tyler, Count Cassel, Baron Wildenhaim, Jane De Monfort, Count Edmund, Count Freberg, Count Waterlan, Lady Jane, Enter Countess, Enter Manuel, Miss Wildenhaim, Enter Marina, Exit Manuel, Enter Amelia, Enter De Monfort, Enter Florian, Enter Freberg, Enter Jerome, Enter Rezenvelt, Exit Attendant, King of England, May Day, Almighty God, Enter Jane, Enter Landlord New!
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Wat Tyler, Count Cassel, Baron Wildenhaim, Jane De Monfort, Count Edmund, Count Freberg, Count Waterlan, Lady Jane, Enter Countess, Enter Manuel, Miss Wildenhaim, Enter Marina, Exit Manuel, Enter Amelia, Enter De Monfort, Enter Florian, Enter Freberg, Enter Jerome, Enter Rezenvelt, Exit Attendant, King of England, May Day, Almighty God, Enter Jane, Enter Landlord New!
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- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen on 9 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 6 pages
- The School for Scandal (Dover Thrift Editions) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- The School For Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- All for Love (New Mermaids) by John Dryden in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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