Women in British romantic theatre : drama, performance, and society, 1790-1840

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

Other author/creator	Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Description	xvi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	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 note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-334) and index.
LCCN	00021924
ISBN	0521662249

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