Romantic Drama : Acting and Reacting (Paperback)

Introduction; 1. Periscopes into the theatre; 2. Nationalism and national character; 3. Genre: the realism of fantasy, the fantasy of realism; 4. Acting, histrionics, and dissimulation; 5. Transvestites, lovers, monsters: character and sexuality; 6. Setting: where and elsewhere; 7. Gothic and anti-Gothic: comedy and horror; 8. Blue-Beard's castle: mischief and misogyny; 9. Vampires in kilts.