Elizabethan Romance In The Eighteenth Century

Author : William Page Harbeson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330325469
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Elizabethan Influence on the Tragedy of the Late Eighteenth and the Early Nineteenth Centuries written by William Page Harbeson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Elizabethan Influence on the Tragedy of the Late Eighteenth and the Early Nineteenth Centuries This work purposes an examination of tragedy during parts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for evidence of an Elizabethan revival. The drama made a considerable contribution to the literature of the Romantic Period. It experienced reaction against the extreme classicism of Pope and Boileau, as did poetry; and like poetry it expressed the reaction in a freer form, a deeper lyric feeling, and an increased appreciation of natural background. That the results in the field of drama are disappointing intrinsically and in quantity with those in other literary fields is due to a set of causes that need not be discussed here. The phenomena, however, were unquestionably present. In the plays of the later eighteenth century one becomes increasingly aware that the ennui of the age and the prosaic character of its life are producing a natural revulsion of feeling; one notices, slightly at first, then very evidently, the influence of romantic forces like the Reliques, the researches of Gray and Warton, the Garrick Shakespeare, and later the strong tides of German romanticism. Each of these new tendencies pointed back to the glamor of an older time, when life, partly it is true because of retrospect, but partly also because of its inherent qualities, was a colorful pageant, and a happily unlearned people still felt the mystery of existence and wonder about things eternal. Playwrights and poets alike experienced that "Revival of the Middle Ages" that Heine gives as his definition of romance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.