Shelley's Radical Stages

Performance and Cultural Memory in the Post-Napoleonic Era

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Drama History & Criticism
Cover of the book Shelley's Radical Stages by Dana Van Kooy, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Dana Van Kooy ISBN: 9781317055501
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: March 31, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Dana Van Kooy
ISBN: 9781317055501
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: March 31, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romanticism in which history is 'staged'. Reading Shelley's dramas as a series of radical stages - historical reenactments and theatrical reproductions - Van Kooy highlights the cultural significance of the drama and the theatre in shaping and contesting constructions of both the sovereign nation and the global empire in the post-Napoleonic era. This book is about the power of performance to challenge and reformulate cultural memories that were locked in historical narratives and in Britain's theatrical repertoire. It examines each of Shelley's dramas as a specific radical stage that reformulates the familiar cultural performances of war, revolution, slavery and domestic tyranny. Shelley's plays invite audiences to step away from these horrors and to imagine their lives as something other than a tragedy or a melodrama where characters are entrapped in cycles of violence or struck blind or silent by fear. Although Shelley's dramas are few in number they engage a larger cultural project of aesthetic and political reform that constituted a groundswell of activism that took place during the Romantic period.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romanticism in which history is 'staged'. Reading Shelley's dramas as a series of radical stages - historical reenactments and theatrical reproductions - Van Kooy highlights the cultural significance of the drama and the theatre in shaping and contesting constructions of both the sovereign nation and the global empire in the post-Napoleonic era. This book is about the power of performance to challenge and reformulate cultural memories that were locked in historical narratives and in Britain's theatrical repertoire. It examines each of Shelley's dramas as a specific radical stage that reformulates the familiar cultural performances of war, revolution, slavery and domestic tyranny. Shelley's plays invite audiences to step away from these horrors and to imagine their lives as something other than a tragedy or a melodrama where characters are entrapped in cycles of violence or struck blind or silent by fear. Although Shelley's dramas are few in number they engage a larger cultural project of aesthetic and political reform that constituted a groundswell of activism that took place during the Romantic period.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Heaven's Gate by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Introducing Quantitative Geography by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Intelligence by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Fostering Friendship by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book A History of Homo Economicus by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Diasporic Chinese Ventures by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Child Observation for Learning and Research by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Terrorism Today by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Custom by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Resource Focused Counselling and Psychotherapy by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book UNESCO Without Borders by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book Communities of Musical Practice by Dana Van Kooy
Cover of the book The Wisdom of Buddhism by Dana Van Kooy
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy