Women in British romantic theatre : drama, performance, and society, 1790-1840 / edited by Catherine Burroughs.

Other author Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Descriptionxvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-334) and index.
LCCN 00021924
ISBN0521662249

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