Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the reader of drama
"Many nineteenth-century writers believed that the best tragedy should be read rather than performed, and they have often been attacked for their views by later critics. Through detailed analysis of Coleridge's Shakespearean Criticism, Lamb's On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, and Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Heller shows that in their concern with educating the reader these Romantics anticipate twentieth-century reader response criticism, educational theory, and film criticism."--Publishers website
Print Book, English, ©1990
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780826207180, 0826207189
19512852
The bias against spectacle in tragedy: the history of an idea
The romantics' critique of appeals to the senses in the arts
Coleridge's emphasis on the importance of "abstraction" in education, reading drama, and self-realization
Hazlitt's appeal to readers in his drama criticism
Lamb and reader-response criticism
The metamorphoses of nineteenth-century views of spectacle