Word: romanticism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This life of Cyrano de Bergerac will be relished by all who have been delighted with the romantic manliness and nobility of M. Rostand's hero. The actual Cyrano, it was known from the start, had been poetically idealized by M. Rostand; but the extent of the liberties with history...
M. Doumic devoted his lecture yesterday afternoon to historical writings during the romantic period of French literature. At the close of his address he took a graceful leave of his audience, and thanked them for their regular attendance and appreciation.
Fantasio shows the fantastic character of the author's writing, both in Fantasio's conversation and in the strange method he takes to prevent Elizabeth's marriage. De Musset was one of the best painters of the young girl. Elizabeth is the type of the young girl of Romanticism. Cecilia is not a romantic type but a simple candid young girl...
...Romanticism was most successful in lyric poetry; naturally it was least so on the stage. Classic tragedy was dead. Shakespeare and Schiller were used as models. Mme. de Stael wrote "L'Allemagne," Stendhal wrote "Racine et Shakespeare." Victor Hugo in his "Preface de Cromwell" defined the drama as a mixture of the tragic and the comic with an historic stage setting and with out the three unities. But these are not the real signs of the romantic drama. In fact there was a style of play which was increasing in popular favor as tragedy declined; this was the melodrama. Romantic...
The Romantic movement was one of emancipation. It freed certain faculties which had been too long confined and which deserved to be developed.