Catherine Burroughs (ed.)

Women in British Romantic Theatre

Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790 1840
Herausgeber: Burroughs, Catherine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays examine the extraordinary contribution of women playwrights, actors, translators, critics and managers who worked in British theatre during the romantic period. Focusing on women well known during their day but neglected for some 150 years, the volume provides a crucial perspective that revises historical narratives and reflects the rapidly changing terrain of scholarship in the complex field of romantic theatre and drama. Eleven specially commissioned essays by a distinguished team of scholars explore the role of numerous theatrical women including the eminent actress Sarah Siddons and two of the period's most prolific playwrights Elizabeth Inchbald and Joanna Baillie. The book strikes a balance between literary and theatrical approaches, showing how the period's preoccupation with categories such as text and performance, closet drama and stage, provide a key to 'uncloseting' an important group of female theatre artists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9780521032438
• ISBN-10: 0521032431
• Artikelnr.: 21899476

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments;
Introduction: uncloseting women in British Romantic theatre Catherine
Burroughs; Part I. Historical Contexts: Revolution and Entrenchment: 1.
Baillie, Siddons, Larpent: gender, power and politics in the theatre of
Romanticism Jeffrey N. Cox; 2. Reviewing women in British Romantic theatre
Greg Kucich; Part II. Nations, Households, Dramaturgy: 3. Women and history
on the Romantic stage: More, Yearsley, Burney and Mitford Katherine Newey;
4. English national identity in Mariana Starke's The Sword of Peace: India,
abolition and the rights of women Jeanne Moskal; 5. Women's sovereignty on
trial: Joanna Baillie's comedy The Tryal as metatheatrics Marjean D.
Purinton; Part III. Performance and Closet Drama: 6. Outing Joanna Baillie
Susan Bennett; 7. The management of laughter: Jane Scott's Camilla the
Amazon in 1998 Jacky Bratton and Gilli Bush-Bailey; Part IV. Criticism and
Theory: 8. Elizabeth Inchbald: a woman critic in her theatrical culture
Marvin Carlson; 9. Authorial performances in the criticism and theory of
Romantic women playwrights Thomas C. Crochunis; Part V. Translation,
Adaptation, Revision: 10. Suicide and translation in the dramaturgy of
Elizabeth Inchbald and Anne Plumptre Jane Moody; 11. Remaking love: remorse
in the theatre of Baillie and Inchbald Julie Carlson; Bibliography; Index.