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- Title
Res Theatralis Histrionica: Acting Coleridge in the Lecture Theater.
- Authors
CHRISTIE, WILLIAM
- Abstract
The article analyzes poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's series of literary lectures in 1808 at the Royal Institution in London, England, focusing on his interpretation of William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" and how lecturing became a form of theater. Details are provided on the history of the Royal Institution and on British intellectual life by the 19th-century. The author goes on to discuss how Coleridge's characterization of Hamlet was partly self-satire, self-elegy, and self-justification.
- Subjects
COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; LECTURES &; lecturing; ROYAL Institution of Great Britain; HAMLET (Play : Shakespeare); CRITICISM &; interpretation of Shakespeare's works -- History; HISTORY; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Studies in Romanticism, 2013, Vol 52, Issue 4, p485
- ISSN
0039-3762
- Publication type
Article