Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from December 1999

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from December 1999

Reflections on the importance of romantic drama.(Romantic Drama in Place)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... The University of Texas symposium, "Romantic Drama in Place," drew me back to 1797, the year that is the subject of a large part of the last section of Spectacular Politics. My method is "thick description" and obsessively asking, "Why does...

Home as abroad: Orientalism and Occidentalism in early English stage melodrama.(Romantic Drama in Place)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... This article was initially a paper for a symposium entitled "Romantic Drama in Place," but my own contribution to the discussion is perhaps more appropriately located within the title, "Melodrama out of Place." I like this revision because it...

Coming after: Shelley's 'Proserpine'.(Romantic Drama in Place)(Mary Shelley)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... The only legend I have ever loved is The story of a daughter lost in hell And found and rescued there. Love and blackmail are the gist of it. Ceres and Persephone the names. And the best thing about the legend is ...

Re-OPening after the Old Price riots: war and peace at Drury Lane.(Romantic Drama in Place)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... With Drury's for sartin we'll never have done, We've built up another, and yet there's but one; The old one was best, yet I'd say, if I durst, The new one is better--the last is the first. Tol de rol, &c. ...

Spots of time: the structure of the dramatic evening in the theater of romanticism.(Romantic Drama in Place)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1999... The allusion to Wordsworth in my title perhaps leads off in the wrong direction; it might be more accurate if I called this essay "Spots in Time" or, better, if I dropped Wordsworth and instead alluded to John Brownsmith's 1767 Dramatic...