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Women in British romantic theatre : drama, performance, and society, 1790-1840
- Title
- Women in British romantic theatre : drama, performance, and society, 1790-1840 / edited by Catherine Burroughs.
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958-
- Description
- xvi, 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This is a collection of essays examining the contribution of women playwrights, actors, and others, who worked in British theatre during the romantic period, focusing on women well-known during their day but neglected for some 150 years.
- Subject
- 1700-1899
- English drama > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women in the theater > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Women in the theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- English drama > 19th century > History and criticism
- English drama > 18th century > History and criticism
- Theater > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Romanticism > Great Britain
- English drama > History and criticism
- English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- 18.05 English literature
- 24.11 history of drama
- English literature > Women authors
- English drama
- English drama > Women authors
- Romanticism
- Theater
- Women and literature
- Women in the theater
- Drama
- Aufführung
- Gesellschaft
- Romantik
- Frau
- Engels
- Toneel
- Vrouwen
- Women and literature > Great Britain > 19th century
- Women and literature > Great Britain > 18th century
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-334) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: uncloseting women in British Romantic theatre / Catherine B. Burroughs -- Baillie, Siddons, Larpent: gender, power, and politics in the theatre of Romanticism / Jeffrey N. Cox -- Reviewing women in British Romantic theatre / Greg Kucich -- Women and history on the Romantic stage: More, Yearsley, Burney, and Mitford / Katherine Newey -- English national identity in Mariana Starke's The sword of peace: India, abolition, and the rights of women / Jeanne Moskal -- Women's sovereignty on trial: Joanna Baillie's comedy The tryal as metatheatrics / Marjean D. Purinton -- Outing Joanna Baillie / Susan Bennett -- The management of laughter: Jane Scott's Camilla the amazon in 1998 / Jacky Bratton, Gilli Bush-Bailey, and DT2323A semester 97/8B -- Elizabeth Inchbald: a woman critic in her theatrical culture / Marvic Carlson -- Authorial performances in the critical and theory of Romantic women playwrights / Thomas C. Crochunis -- Suicide and translation in the dramaturgy of Elizabeth Inchbald and Anne Plumptre / Jane Moody -- Remaking love: remorse in the theatre of Baillie and Inchbald / Julie Carlson.
- ISBN
- 0521662249
- 9780521662246
- LCCN
- 00021924
- OCLC
- ocm43365834
- 43365834
- SCSB-14527787
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library