TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Shaughnessy,David
TI  - William Godwin and the Theatre
T2  - The Enlightenment World Series
SN  - 9781317323747
AV  - PR4724.O84 2010 
U1  - 822.6 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Politics and literature--England--History--19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'A Head Full of Plays and Novels' -- 1 Godwin and London's Theatrical World -- 2 'The Link between the Literary Class of Mankind and the Uninstructed': St Dunstan and Caleb Williams -- 3 'Applause Hitherto Would be Impertinent': Spectacle and Anti-Spectacle in Antonio and St Leon -- 4 Conversation and Spectacle in Abbas, Faulkner and Fleetwood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
N2  - William Godwin is one of the most important figures of the Romantic period. He wrote four plays at the end of the 18th/beginning of the 19th centuries. This book has two main objectives: to provide the first comprehensive discussion of these four plays, and to consider the notion of theatricality in relation to Godwin's political project
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