Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Impossible Theaters: Distance, Theatre, and the Romantic Voice -- 1. Pantomime: Killing the Drama in Order to Save It -- 2. Spaces with Meaning: Crossing from Stage to Closet in Byron and Inchbald -- 3. Man Seeing: Wordsworth and the Theatrical Voice -- 4. 'The Great Master Of Ideal Mimicry": Shelley's Struggle With The Actor -- 5. Creative Spectacle: Hunt, Hazlitt, De Quincey -- Conclusion: Reaching a Mass Audience Face to Face.
Summary:
"Distance, Theater and the Public Voice explores the ways in which theater helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. As theaters expanded, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Distance, Theater and the Public Voice shows how writers experimented with theatrical situations--both old and new, legitimate and illegitimate--as they crafted a voice that could sound intimate and personal even as it broadcast itself to an imagined public"-- Provided by publisher.
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