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Author Caputo, Nicoletta., author.

Title Richard III as a romantic icon : textual, cultural and theatrical appropriations / Nicoletta Caputo
Published Bern : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Romantic studies. Theories and practices ; volume 2
Romantic studies : theories and practices ; v. 2.
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Richard III as a "Romantic" Icon; Part I: The "True" Richard III; Chapter 1: Revising the Tudor Myth in the Eighteenth Century; Chapter 2: Richard's Reputation in Romantic Times; Chapter 3: A "Romantic" Richard; Part II: King Richard III on the Page; Chapter 4: Eighteenth-century Character Criticism; Chapter 5: The Romantic-period Critics; Chapter 6: Two Unhappy Stage Adaptations; Part III: King Richard III on the Stage; Chapter 7: A Hybrid Richard; Chapter 8: The "Ogreish" Cooke; Chapter 9: The "Harlequin" Kean
ConclusionBibliography; Index of Names
Summary The book investigates the Romantics' fascination with the character of Richard III and explores his iconic centrality from the historical, the textual and the theatrical points of view. The multiplicity of Romantic-period Richards mirrored the age, as it was related to the cultural and ideological multiplicity of the Romantic era itself
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 01, 2019)
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Richard III -- Criticism, Textual
SUBJECT King Richard III (Shakespeare, William) fast
Subject Kings and rulers in literature.
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Kings and rulers in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783034329958
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9783034329972
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