Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from September 1996

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from September 1996

"Fine word, legitimate!": toward a theatrical history of Romanticism.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1996... "The separation of the drama from the theatre is an index of ROMANTICISM itself." (1) Buried in a footnote, Jerome McGann's comment briskly rehearses a critical position cited with sufficient frequency, and with such confidence, as gradually to...

Staging hope: genre, myth, and ideology in the dramas of the Hunt circle.(Leigh Hunt )(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1996... How does a political prisoner in 1814 write a play about the abdication of Napoleon? While this situation--that of Leigh Hunt who was in prison at the time of Napoleon's fall in April 1814 as a result of his attack in the Examiner upon the...

"A reasonable woman's desire": the private theatrical and Joanna Baillie's the Tryal.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1996... Designed primarily to amuse those who had enough money to buy off boredom, late eighteenth-century British private theatricals were often unabashedly elitist projects not only in the sense that many took place in exclusive environments but...

"This pen of mine will say too much": public performance in the journals of Anna Larpent.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1996... The daughter of a diplomat and later wife of England's Examiner of Plays, Anna Margaretta Larpent was never entirely enchanted with the recreational frivolity common among members of her class. Her seventeen-volume diary, spanning the years...

Ancestral voices prophesying what? The moving text in Byron's 'Marino Faliero' and 'Sardanapalus'.(dramatist Lord George Gordon Byron)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1996... Of Byron's numerous plays, Marino Faliero was the only one to be staged in his lifetime. It was, therefore, a text on the move. The argument of this essay is that the drama was already a moving text, in a number of senses, before it was...

Strange flesh: Shelley and the performance of skepticism.(Percy Bysshe Shelley)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1996... In September 1819, when news of the Peterloo Massacre had reached Shelley in Leghorn, he vented his rage in a letter to his publisher that has become familiar to every Shelley scholar. "The torrent of my indignation has not yet done boiling in...

Count Cenci's abysmal credit.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1996... The "restless and anatomizing casuistry" Shelley hoped the problem of Beatrice CENCI would inflict in his audience well describes the plight of jurors for the forgery trials of late 1818. Two of Shelley's most respected sources for news of...

Trying Sheridan's 'Pizarro'.(Richard Brinsley Sheridan)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1996... The most popular play of the 1790s in London and the second most popular play of the entire eighteenth century is Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro, adapted from the German of August von Kotzebue. Featuring an all-star cast of John Kemble,...

The Cenci: recognizing the Shelleyan sublime.(Percy Bysshe Shelley)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 1996... In Prometheus Unbound, Prometheus's "high," sublime language is implicated in an ethic of revenge that perpetuates evil until it can be recalled. According to Angela Leighton, Shelley could subscribe to the sublime rhetoric of enthusiasm,...

The editors.
September 22, 1996... The guest editor is grateful to editor Anthony C. Hilfer for his unstinting support of this topic and special issue, and to TSLL's editorial assistant Jennifer Bean for her professional and timely assistance. The essays that appear in this...