"Theatrical Periodicals and the Ethics of Theatre in the Romantic Age"

In the Romantic Age, the number of the periodicals devoted exclusively to theatrical matters was huge, and for the richness and variety of their contents, and even for their prejudice and sectarianism, they prove extremely useful to the understanding of the complexity of the theatrical event in those years. In this essay, I will look at the strategies that such magazines adopted to arouse interest in the theatrical event and its protagonists, to influence public opinion, and to create an ideal audience and an “ideal theatre”.