Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Publications by Professor Marta Gibińska
- Part I
- Part II
- “My Last Duchess” or “The Radiance of the Painting”: Jean-Luc Marion Reads the Poetry of Robert Browning
- “‘Any good?’ ‘Will this do?’”: Reflections on the Poetry of C.S. Lewis
- Idealized Cognitive Models, Typicality Effects, Translation
- “Death Thou Shalt Die”: Resurrection in John Donne's Prose and Poetry
- From Pulpit to Stage – the Rhetorical Theatricality of George Whitefield's Preaching
- “What a gallant mourning ribbon is this, which I wear.” The Function of the Title Pages in the Shaping of the Character in Early Modern English Execution Narratives
- A Revolutionary Inspiration: Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Ann'quin Bredouille by Jean-Claude Gorjy
- The Indian Mutiny and English Fiction
- The Pioneers: Reflections of America's Anxiety about Frontier Expansion
- Imprisonment and False Liberation in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime
- Coleridge's Zapolya: Between Dramatic Romance and Gothic Melodrama
Coleridge's Zapolya: Between Dramatic Romance and Gothic Melodrama
from Part II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Publications by Professor Marta Gibińska
- Part I
- Part II
- “My Last Duchess” or “The Radiance of the Painting”: Jean-Luc Marion Reads the Poetry of Robert Browning
- “‘Any good?’ ‘Will this do?’”: Reflections on the Poetry of C.S. Lewis
- Idealized Cognitive Models, Typicality Effects, Translation
- “Death Thou Shalt Die”: Resurrection in John Donne's Prose and Poetry
- From Pulpit to Stage – the Rhetorical Theatricality of George Whitefield's Preaching
- “What a gallant mourning ribbon is this, which I wear.” The Function of the Title Pages in the Shaping of the Character in Early Modern English Execution Narratives
- A Revolutionary Inspiration: Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and Ann'quin Bredouille by Jean-Claude Gorjy
- The Indian Mutiny and English Fiction
- The Pioneers: Reflections of America's Anxiety about Frontier Expansion
- Imprisonment and False Liberation in E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime
- Coleridge's Zapolya: Between Dramatic Romance and Gothic Melodrama
Summary
In the field of Romantic studies, starting with the advent of new historicism in the 1980s there emerged considerable interest in texts traditionally viewed as artistic failures. That was linked to the belief in the need of “breaking down the barriers between ‘literary’ texts and other genres and questioning the hierarchy of ‘major’ and ‘minor’ writers set up by critics inspired by modernist aesthetics” (Franklin 2007: 83). Simultaneously, under the influence of Marxist cultural materialism texts were viewed as records of ideological conflicts of the time. This opened up new areas of research, one of them being popular theatre, which, in turn, shed a new light on the works of “canonical” writers. Even if one reverts to a more traditional, humanist critical position these insights are meaningful when they allow us to understand why a given literary work failed to succeed.
S.T. Coleridge's drama Zapolya offers an intriguing test case. Why did a perceptive critic of Shakespeare fail as a playwright? It is generally agreed that his plays belong to his “minor” works. Nonetheless, his tragedy Remorse achieved a relative stage success at Drury Lane in 1813. While Zapolya was never staged in the patent theatres, its melodramatic adaptation by Thomas Dibdin entitled Zapolya; or, The War Wolf was produced at the Royal Circus and Surrey Theatre with a considerable success within three months of its publication in 1817.
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- Eyes to Wonder, Tongue to PraiseVolume in Honour of Professor Marta Gibińska, pp. 277 - 290Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2012