2 June 2026, 5pm UK Time
https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QLieh1WDSbSXqk36mtO5tg
With support from the Centre for Theatre Research and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Literary Studies at the University of Essex
Well into the twentieth century it was common to think of Romanticism as a period somewhat allergic to the stage. Even today, anthologies and surveys of the period emphasise the achievements of lyric poetry and the novel. When drama does arise, it often takes the form of what Byron called “mental theatre.” However, over the last 30 or 40 years, scholars have challenged this view to reveal in the period a “ranging debate about the theatre” in which, according to Greg Kucich,“there is a recurrent insistence on stage production as an indispensable component of dramatic writing.” This roundtable builds on this critical reassessment of the Romantic stage and how it informs contemporary work on Romantic drama. The question of whether (and which) Romantic plays were viable on the commercial stage has been re-energised by the emergence of practice-as-research methodologies, which have seen contemporary scholars experimenting with producing Romantic drama for modern audiences.
Join our speakers, Chris Bundock, Helen Dallas, David Francis Taylor, James Harriman-Smith, Omar F. Miranda, for a roundtable on Romantic theatre and its afterlives!