Women in British Romantic Theatre
Women in British Romantic Theatre
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USDFirst published in 2000, this collection of essays examine the extraordinary contribution of women playwrights, actors, translators, critics and managers who worked in British theatre during the romantic period. Focusing on women well known during their day but neglected for some 150 years, the volume provides a crucial perspective that revises historical narratives and reflects the rapidly changing terrain of scholarship in the complex field of romantic theatre and drama. Eleven specially commissioned essays by a distinguished team of scholars explore the role of numerous theatrical women including the eminent actress Sarah Siddons and two of the period's most prolific playwrights Elizabeth Inchbald and Joanna Baillie. The book strikes a balance between literary and theatrical approaches, showing how the period's preoccupation with categories such as text and performance, closet drama and stage, provide a key to 'uncloseting' an important group of female theatre artists.
- Collection of essays which have been specially commissioned, focusing on women in British romantic theatre
- Covers not only playwrights but also actors, theorists, translators, critics, managers
- Offers a perspective on theatre history by prominent scholars in both English and Theatre
Reviews & endorsements
"...a rich compendium of essays that expand the conventional parameters of theatrical studies and elaborate the nature of women's conflicted relationship to the art and business of theatre." Canadian Woman Studies
"Burroughs's anthology of essays ... stands as a substantial contribution to a burgeoning field of study." Nineteenth-Century Literature
"Women in British Romantic Theatre offers a consistently high quality of contributions and a clear focus on the questions of performance, genre, and gender. By maintaining the importance of women writers as a category that is politically heterogeneous and historically textured, Burroughs and her contributors shed valuable light on the gender of Romanticism's stage/play distinction without veering into essentialism." The Wordsworth Circle
Product details
January 2007Paperback
9780521032438
364 pages
228 × 152 × 24 mm
0.546kg
5 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 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.
