This essay discusses the potentialities of diverse tools and approaches to teaching students about theatrical culture during the Romantic period, with a close focus on the enthralling field of the illegitimate, and also embracing stage music and theatre-related print culture. The function of playbills as mediators advertising theatrical spectacles, pantomimes, and performances of all sorts is explored, as graphically emerging in late-Romantic visual culture. The current and lively debate on the pedagogy of Romanticism, to which the essay intends to contribute, has been running parallel to the ongoing redefinition process investing the entire disciplinary field of Romantic studies. This reshaping of Romantic pedagogy mirrors the “changing canon” (Higgins and Ruston 2010), and records the transformation by focusing on a number of key aspects, including genre, with theatre playing a central role.
Hybridism, Visual Culture and the Pedagogy of Romantic Drama and Theatre
FRANCA DELLAROSA
2022-01-01
Abstract
This essay discusses the potentialities of diverse tools and approaches to teaching students about theatrical culture during the Romantic period, with a close focus on the enthralling field of the illegitimate, and also embracing stage music and theatre-related print culture. The function of playbills as mediators advertising theatrical spectacles, pantomimes, and performances of all sorts is explored, as graphically emerging in late-Romantic visual culture. The current and lively debate on the pedagogy of Romanticism, to which the essay intends to contribute, has been running parallel to the ongoing redefinition process investing the entire disciplinary field of Romantic studies. This reshaping of Romantic pedagogy mirrors the “changing canon” (Higgins and Ruston 2010), and records the transformation by focusing on a number of key aspects, including genre, with theatre playing a central role.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
