The plays collected in Sisters of Gore span the development of Gothic melodrama from the 1790s to the 1840s.
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This work breaks new ground because no other collections of gothic plays by women exist. All general and academic collections.
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John Franceschina is a composer and Associate professor of Drama at Pennsylvania State University.
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Nothing is known about Miss Burke (or Mrs. Burke as she is called in The London Stage ) but her The Ward of the Castle is, perhaps, the first Gothic melodrama written by a woman. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Sir Bert, Lord Dacre, Sir Nich, Clair Monteith, First Priv, Lady Anne, Sir Conrade, Father Michael, Dacre of the South, Miss Scott, Lord Roskelyn, Lord Raymond, Alnwick Castle, Margaret Harvey, Clair of the Isles, Covent Garden, Elector Palatine, Sir James, Count Falkenstiern, Drury Lane, Lord Audley, Miss Burke, Count Lanfranco, Elizabeth Polack, First Serv New!
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Nothing is known about Miss Burke (or Mrs. Burke as she is called in The London Stage ) but her The Ward of the Castle is, perhaps, the first Gothic melodrama written by a woman. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
old oak chest, proscribed general, subterraneous passage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Bert, Lord Dacre, Sir Nich, Clair Monteith, First Priv, Lady Anne, Sir Conrade, Father Michael, Dacre of the South, Miss Scott, Lord Roskelyn, Lord Raymond, Alnwick Castle, Margaret Harvey, Clair of the Isles, Covent Garden, Elector Palatine, Sir James, Count Falkenstiern, Drury Lane, Lord Audley, Miss Burke, Count Lanfranco, Elizabeth Polack, First Serv New!
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- The Castle Spectre by Matthew G. Lewis on 7 pages
- Thinking About Women by Mary Ellman on 4 pages
- The Gothic Quest: A History of the Gothic Novel by Montague Summers in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Getting Into the Act: Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829 (Gender in Performance) by Ellen Donkin in Front Matter, page 229, and Back Matter
- Female Playwrights of the Nineteenth Cen (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by Adrienne Scullion in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790-1840 by Catherine Burroughs on 6 pages
- Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Tracy C. Davis on page 73, page 222, and page 232
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror) (No. 12) by Ellen Datlow in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Jerrold E. Hogle in Back Matter
- Gore On Stage: The Plays of Catherine Gore (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by John Franceschina in Back Matter
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