Catherine Burroughs (ed.)

Women in British Romantic Theatre

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

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2000, this collection of essays focuses on women theatre artists in the romantic period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780521662246
• ISBN-10: 0521662249
• Artikelnr.: 33869413

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.