Book contents
- Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century
- Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Style
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Dramatic Transition
- Chapter 2 Zara
- Chapter 3 Odes
- Chapter 4 King Lear
- Chapter 5 Dramatic Character
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Coda
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2021
- Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century
- Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Style
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Dramatic Transition
- Chapter 2 Zara
- Chapter 3 Odes
- Chapter 4 King Lear
- Chapter 5 Dramatic Character
- Coda
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Built around two visits to Westminster Abbey, this short coda compares early eighteenth-century attitudes to theatrical transitions to William Hazlitt's and Charles Lamb's writing about actors. Both Lamb and Hazlitt emerge as hostile to what I have called the art of transition, as they each denigrate the performance of a character in favour of the study of that figure’s psychological constitution.
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- Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Art of Transition, pp. 184 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021