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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Women authors--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--Women authors.

Women in the theater--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women in the theater.

Women in the theater--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

History.

Great Britain.

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.

Theater--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

xvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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 tranlation inthe dramaturgy of Elizabeth Inchbald and Anne Plumptre / Jane Moody

Remaking love: remorse in the theatre of Baillie and Inchbald / Julie Carlson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-334) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0521662249

OCLC:

43365834