THEATRICAL FIELDING.(Henry Fielding) From: Studies in the Literary Imagination | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: Lockwood, Thomas | COPYRIGHT 1999 Georgia State University Department of English. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

What I mean by this title is not so much the Fielding who worked in theater as the Fielding in whom theater itself worked and kept on working, imaginatively, all his life. From his playhouse experience, he took or was taken by a certain deeply theatrical habit of imagination that bathes the material of his post-dramatic writing career and, in some cases, I would argue, underpins the creative structure of that writing. I am talking about something more or other than a dramatic imagi...