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Table of contents
Introductionix
I. Renewal and Innovation
1. Shakespeare and the Formation of Romantic Drama in Germany and France3 2. The Reception of the Spanish Theater in European Romanticism17 3. “Theater in the Theater” and “Word Theater”: Play Thematics and the Breakthrough of Romantic Drama35 4. Illusion and Romantic Drama59 II. Themes, Styles, Structures
1. Shakespeare Refracted: Writer, Audience, and Rewriter in French and German Romantice Translations101 2. Folklore and Romantic Drama115 3. Nationalism and the Romantic Drama in Europe139 4.Romantic Redefinitions of the Tragic153 4. The Romantic Tragedy of Fate167 5. Empathy and Distance: German Romantic Theories of Acting Reconsidered181 6. What is Romantic Opera? — Toward a Musico-Literary Definition209 III. Affinity, Dissemination, Reception
1. The Italian Romantic Drama in Its European Context233 2. Romantic Drama in the Hispanic World: The Picturesque Mode249 3. Polish Romantic Drama in Perspective259 4. Russian Romantic Drama: The Case of Griboedov273 5. Romanticism in Genres of Drama in Bohemia287 6. Romantic Drama in Hungary297 7. Romantic Trends in Scandinavian Drama317 8. From Dark into Light: Nineteenth-Century Romantic Drama in English-Canada329 9. Nineteenth-Century American Drama: A Romantic Quest343 10. The Romantic Theater in Hispanic America359 IV. The Romantic Legacy
1. Classic Vision in the Romantic Age: Goethe’s Reconstitution of European Drama in Faust II379 2. Romantic Irony and Biedermeier Tragicomedy399 3. Romantic Cosmic Drama413 4. The Past is Prologue: The Romantic Heritage in Dramatic Literature429 Bibliography465
Index489
