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Richard III as a Romantic Icon: Textual, Cultural and Theatrical Appropriations

Richard III as a Romantic Icon: Textual, Cultural and Theatrical Appropriations

Caputo, Nicoletta
Baiesi, Serena
Crisafulli, Lilla Maria

Paperback

Series: Romantic Studies, Book 2

Performance Art

ISBN10: 3034329989
ISBN13: 9783034329989
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Dec 14 2018
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This valuable volume adopts a multi-perspective approach to the historical and dramatic figure of Richard III during the long Romantic period. It takes into consideration his controversial reputation among historians of the time, as well as his changing place within the critical literature. It likewise examines nineteenth-century adaptations of Shakespeare's play. Above all, Nicoletta Caputo's innovative book discusses contrasting stage interpretations of Richard as dramatis persona, in the performances of such iconic players as David Garrick, George Frederick Cooke and Edmund Kean. The vivid overall picture that emerges of Richard III is that of a figure who exerts an almost inexhaustible fascination on the Romantics. Nicoletta Caputo persuasively illustrates ̶ on the basis of abundant documentary evidence ̶ the surprising degree to which Richard is to be found at the very centre of the literary, theatrical, ideological and ethical debates, over a period of several decades. Such extraordinary centrality in turn sheds light on Romantic culture at large, and in particular on its understanding of Shakespeare, grounded above all in character analysis, often of a moral and political nature. The Romantics tended to reify Shakespeare's villainous king, extrapolating him from his dramatic context, and turning him into an autonomous, virtually living person.

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