Shelley's Radical Stages
Regular price
€56.99
A01=Dana Van Kooy
Act III
affair
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Dana Van Kooy
automatic-update
caroline
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AN
Category=ATD
Category=DSB
Category=DSBF
Category=DSG
Category=HBTB
Category=HBTQ
Category=NHTB
Category=NHTQ
childe
Cockney Classicism
Constantine Paleologus
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Pre-order
dramas
Eikon Basilike
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
George III
Green Bag
harolds
King's Image
Language_English
Lifeless Idol
Lord Chamberlain's Office
PA=Temporarily unavailable
pilgrimage
Price_€20 to €50
prometheus
Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Unbound
PS=Active
queen
Queen Caroline Affair
Reni's Portrait
Selim III
Shelley's Dramas
Shelley's Hellas
Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
Shelley's Prose
shelleys
softlaunch
Spp
Swinish Multitude
Tippoo Saib
unbound
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367882341
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romanticism in which history is 'staged'. Reading Shelley's dramas as a series of radical stages - historical reenactments and theatrical reproductions - Van Kooy highlights the cultural significance of the drama and the theatre in shaping and contesting constructions of both the sovereign nation and the global empire in the post-Napoleonic era. This book is about the power of performance to challenge and reformulate cultural memories that were locked in historical narratives and in Britain's theatrical repertoire. It examines each of Shelley's dramas as a specific radical stage that reformulates the familiar cultural performances of war, revolution, slavery and domestic tyranny. Shelley's plays invite audiences to step away from these horrors and to imagine their lives as something other than a tragedy or a melodrama where characters are entrapped in cycles of violence or struck blind or silent by fear. Although Shelley's dramas are few in number they engage a larger cultural project of aesthetic and political reform that constituted a groundswell of activism that took place during the Romantic period.
Dana Van Kooy is an Assistant Professor of Transnational Literature, Literary Theory and Culture in the Humanities Department at Michigan Technological University, USA.
