6. What is Romantic Opera? — Toward a Musico-Literary Definition

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. I. Renewal and Innovation
5. 1. Shakespeare and the Formation of Romantic Drama in Germany and France 3
6. 2. The Reception of the Spanish Theater in European Romanticism 17
7. 3. “Theater in the Theater” and “Word Theater” 35
8. 4. Illusion and Romantic Drama 59
9. II. Themes, Styles, Structures
10. 1. Shakespeare Refracted 101
11. 2. Folklore and Romantic Drama 115
12. 3. Nationalism and the Romantic Drama in Europe 139
13. 4.Romantic Redefinitions of the Tragic 153
14. 4. The Romantic Tragedy of Fate 167
15. 5. Empathy and Distance 181
16. 6. What is Romantic Opera? — Toward a Musico-Literary Definition 209
17. III. Affinity, Dissemination, Reception
18. 1. The Italian Romantic Drama in Its European Context 233
19. 2. Romantic Drama in the Hispanic World 249
20. 3. Polish Romantic Drama in Perspective 259
21. 4. Russian Romantic Drama 273
22. 5. Romanticism in Genres of Drama in Bohemia 287
23. 6. Romantic Drama in Hungary 297
24. 7. Romantic Trends in Scandinavian Drama 317
25. 8. From Dark into Light 329
26. 9. Nineteenth-Century American Drama 343
27. 10. The Romantic Theater in Hispanic America 359
28. IV. The Romantic Legacy
29. 1. Classic Vision in the Romantic Age 379
30. 2. Romantic Irony and Biedermeier Tragicomedy 399
31. 3. Romantic Cosmic Drama 413
32. 4. The Past is Prologue 429
33. Bibliography 465
34. Index 489