{"title":"The Surprising Success of C. R. Maturin’s Bertram: A Collaboration with Scott, Byron, Kean, and Murray","authors":"Jaekwon Park","doi":"10.7560/tsll64101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Though the Romantics celebrated the idea of the author as an individual genius, the great success of Bertram in the London theatrical world of the 1810s was due to a collaborative effort. This study examines the collaborators’ roles in this success: writers Scott and Byron, who saw the potential in Bertram; actor Kean, who realized the role of Bertram; and publisher Murray, who saw the potential for the play’s success in print. All of them together made the success of Bertram possible.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"64 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll64101","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:Though the Romantics celebrated the idea of the author as an individual genius, the great success of Bertram in the London theatrical world of the 1810s was due to a collaborative effort. This study examines the collaborators’ roles in this success: writers Scott and Byron, who saw the potential in Bertram; actor Kean, who realized the role of Bertram; and publisher Murray, who saw the potential for the play’s success in print. All of them together made the success of Bertram possible.