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11 janvier 2013
- handle: 10670/1.0f3ysb
- isbn: 9781906924317
- eisbn: 9781906924324
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history & criticism playreading Georgian theater Shelley’s drama Georgian stage practice drama practical technique satirical comedy Literature Theater PER011020 ANSujets proches
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Jacqueline Mulhallen, « Chapter Five: Ideal Drama – Prometheus Unbound », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.0f3ysb
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Critics rarely discuss Prometheus Unbound from the point of view of performability, although theatre directors such as Paul Fort and, more recently, Madge Darlington, have seen its performance possibilities. Shelley would have realised that it would have been unlikely to have reached the stage in 1818 because its style was based on Greek drama, which would not have been acceptable to the commercial London theatre. Although he published it as a poem for reading, there are signs that he initial...