Closet Stages : Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers / Catherine B. Burroughs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burroughs, Catherine B., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851--Knowledge--Performing arts.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

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

Women and literature.

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

Women in the theater.

English drama--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English drama.

English drama--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Closet Stages examines theater theory produced by middle- and upper-class British women-playwrights, actresses, and spectators-between 1790 and 1840. Shifting the focus away from the Romantic male writers to the journals, letters, and play prefaces in which women framed their relationship to the theater arts, Catherine Burroughs reveals how a concern with the performative aspects of daily life and the movement between public and private spheres produced a notion of theater that complicates the Romantic opposition between "closet" and "stage."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. "The Value of Our Criticism": Constructing Women's Theater Theory

2. Representing the Female Actor: Celebrity Narratives, Women's Theories of Acting, and Social Theaters

3. Joanna Baillie's Theater of the Closet: Female Romantic Playwrights and Preface Writing

4. Conflicted Performance Styles in Baillie's First Volume of Plays on the Passions (1798)

5. Private Theatricals and Baillie's The Tryal

Appendix: Selected List of Texts Containing Women's Theater Theory Published in Great Britain (1790-1850)

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-230) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781512801019

1512801011

OCLC:

645856148