Book contents
- Michael Field in Context
- Michael Field in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Chronology
- Part I Works and Days
- Part II Forms and Genres
- Chapter 7 Michael Field and Lyric
- Chapter 8 Michael Field and Verse Drama
- Chapter 9 Michael Field’s Short Prose
- Chapter 10 Ekphrasis in Sight and Song
- Chapter 11 Michael Field’s Love Lyrics
- Chapter 12 Sonnets
- Chapter 13 Devotional Poetry
- Chapter 14 Whym Chow: Flame of Love and Animal Poetry
- Part III In the Name of Time
- Part IV ‘Be contemporaneous’
- Part V Afterlives and Future Fields
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 8 - Michael Field and Verse Drama
from Part II - Forms and Genres
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Book contents
- Michael Field in Context
- Michael Field in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the Text
- Chronology
- Part I Works and Days
- Part II Forms and Genres
- Chapter 7 Michael Field and Lyric
- Chapter 8 Michael Field and Verse Drama
- Chapter 9 Michael Field’s Short Prose
- Chapter 10 Ekphrasis in Sight and Song
- Chapter 11 Michael Field’s Love Lyrics
- Chapter 12 Sonnets
- Chapter 13 Devotional Poetry
- Chapter 14 Whym Chow: Flame of Love and Animal Poetry
- Part III In the Name of Time
- Part IV ‘Be contemporaneous’
- Part V Afterlives and Future Fields
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter explores the verse drama, a genre favoured by Michael Field and by several other Victorian poets, including Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. This chapter sets Michael Field’s verse dramas in the wider contexts of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century drama and theatre, including debates about the New Drama (epitomised by Henrik Ibsen), ‘Shakespeare-philia’, and the modernist movement, such as T. S. Eliot’s verse plays.
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- Michael Field in Context , pp. 68 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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