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"Troubled politically and personally, Wordsworth and Coleridge turned in 1797 to the London stage. Their tragedies, The Borderers and Osorio, were set in medieval Britain and early modern Spain to avoid the Lord Chamberlain's censorship. Drury Lane rejected both, but fifteen years later, Coleridge's revision, Remorse, had spectacular success there, inspiring Shelley's 1819 Roman tragedy, The Cenci, aimed for Covent Garden. Reeve Parker makes a striking case for the power of these intertwined works, written against British hostility to French republican liberties and Regency repression of home-grown agitation. Covertly, Remorse and The Cenci also turn against Wordsworth. Stressing the significance of subtly repeated imagery and resonances with Virgil, Shakespeare, Racine, Jean-François Ducis and Schiller, Parker's close readings, which are boldly imaginative and decidedly untoward, argue that at the heart of these tragedies lie powerful dramatic uncertainties driven by unstable passions - what he calls, adapting Coleridge's phrase for sorcery, 'dark employments'"--
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Dramatic works, English drama, English drama (Tragedy), History and criticism, English Verse drama, Romanticism, Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850, Coleridge, samuel taylor, 1772-1834, Shelley, percy bysshe, 1792-1822, Verse drama, English drama, history and criticism, 18th century, English drama, history and criticism, 19th century, Romanticism, great britain, TragediesPeople
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Romantic Tragedies: The Dark Employments Of Wordsworth, Coleridge, And Shelley
Feb 20, 2014, Cambridge University Press
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Romantic Tragedies: The Dark Employments of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley
2014, Cambridge University Press
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Romantic tragedies: the dark employments of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley
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