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When they weren’t having screaming rows, the members of this overlooked 1930s collective changed the course of cultural history. Why isn’t it better known? ....
I The pattern of modernist aesthetics on the dramatic stage which saw a vogue in 20 th century Europe did not simply emerge sans prototype or influence. We may trace the elements which make a dramatic piece categorically modernist to a certain archetype, and for our purpose of examination the most patent of which is Manfred (1816-17) by Lord Byron (1788-1824), a work that is as much an insult to realism as it is a model of lyrical Romantic excellence. Manfred introduced to the English canon a new set of anti-rules for the author of drama. To the modernists, art is not meant to produce ....