This was the age of the star. For the first time in the history of the theater, the playwright took second place to the actor; the interpretation of the role assumed primary importance in a assessing a performance. It was Mr. Kean's Hamlet first, and Mr. Shakespeare's second. What effects did this highly subjective, interpretive emphasis have on the drama? Where did it originate and how did it evolve? These questions are considered at length in the author's analysis of the nature of Romanticism itself as revealed in essays ...
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This was the age of the star. For the first time in the history of the theater, the playwright took second place to the actor; the interpretation of the role assumed primary importance in a assessing a performance. It was Mr. Kean's Hamlet first, and Mr. Shakespeare's second. What effects did this highly subjective, interpretive emphasis have on the drama? Where did it originate and how did it evolve? These questions are considered at length in the author's analysis of the nature of Romanticism itself as revealed in essays, novels, criticism, and by the actors themselves. The Jacobean origins of this revolutionary period are reviewed, followed by a close scrutiny of the critical writing of such contemporary thinkers as Hazlitt, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. This entirely new concept provides an important link between the practical theater and the contemporary philosophical thought of the time. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Very Good in Very Good+ jacket. Orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 402pp., illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text has erasable pencil marginalia to a few pages near rear. DJ has sun to spine, mild shelfwear.
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Good+ with no dust jacket. 0691061874. Ex-Library copy; with typical markings. Library label on front board and on spine tail. Couple tiny ink spots on front board along outer hinge, and a small, faint smudge on rear board. A trace of light bumping at spine head. Else binding clean. Pages clean, but for library markings.; THH12B; 402 pages; Ex-Library.
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Good in very good jacket. First edition, 1970. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 402 pp., illustrated, Good copy in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, ink-notes to some pages of the text, possessive previous owner has name-stamped all page-edges, a bit of age-toning or soiling to the dust jacket, dust jacket also with a bit of rubbing and edgewear. Dust jacket housed in dust jacket protector.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 900grams, ISBN: 0691061874.
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