Jean I. Marsden (University of Connecticut)

Theatres of Feeling

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Produktbeschreibung

This engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the ability to feel demonstrated moral worth. Theatres of Feeling delivers a new approach to dramatic literature and performance, moving beyond more limited studies of text or performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781108476133
• ISBN-10: 1108476139
• Artikelnr.: 54837521

Autorenporträt

Jean I. Marsden is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Her previous publications include The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth (1991), The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory (1995), Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage 1660-1720 (2006), and numerous articles or editions dealing with diverse topics ranging from Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre, children's literature, Shakespeare, to the poet Anne Finch.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Divine sympathy: theatre, connection, and virtue
2. Dangerous pleasures: theatregoing in the eighteenth century
3. Roman fathers and Grecian daughters: tragedy and the nation
4. Performing the West Indies: comedy, feeling, and British identity
5. The moral muse: comedy as social engineering
Epilogue.