This is the first collection of essays to examine the extraordinary contribution of women playwrights, actors, translators, critics and managers who worked in British theater during the romantic period. Focusing on women well known during their day but neglected for some 150 years, the volume provides a crucial new perspective that revises historical narratives and reflects the rapidly changing terrain of scholarship in the complex field of romantic theater and drama. Eleven specially-commissioned essays by leading scholars explore the role of Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie, Sarah Siddons and numerous others.
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"...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
"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
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This is the first collection of essays to 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 new 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 leading scholars explore the role of Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie, Sarah Siddons and numerous others.
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While we have come a long way from the days when the canon of Romantic writers was restricted to six male poets and when the drama of the early nineteenth century was completely ignored, we are still lacking anything like an adequate account of the place of women in the drama and theatre of what we refer to as the Romantic period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
closet stages, cultural mise, licensing manuscript, authorial performances, women dramatists, romantic theatre, romantic women writers, women playwrights, introductory discourse, dramatic authorship, patent theatres, sympathetic curiosity, female dramatists, woman playwright, closet drama, female playwrights, theatre theory, critical prefaces, stronger passions, excitable speech, women critics, romantic drama, dramatic writing, sentimental comedy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Inchbald, New York, Closet Stages, Drury Lane, Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, Covent Garden, Jane Scott, The Tryal, French Revolution, Catherine Burroughs, Sarah Siddons, Hannah More, Julie Carlson, The Sword of Peace, Anne Plumptre, Leigh Hunt, Mariana Starke, Marie Antoinette, Miss Baillie's Plays, Miscellaneous Plays, The British Critic, University of Pennsylvania Press, Francis Jeffrey New!
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While we have come a long way from the days when the canon of Romantic writers was restricted to six male poets and when the drama of the early nineteenth century was completely ignored, we are still lacking anything like an adequate account of the place of women in the drama and theatre of what we refer to as the Romantic period. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
closet stages, cultural mise, licensing manuscript, authorial performances, women dramatists, romantic theatre, romantic women writers, women playwrights, introductory discourse, dramatic authorship, patent theatres, sympathetic curiosity, female dramatists, woman playwright, closet drama, female playwrights, theatre theory, critical prefaces, stronger passions, excitable speech, women critics, romantic drama, dramatic writing, sentimental comedy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Inchbald, New York, Closet Stages, Drury Lane, Ellen Donkin, Cambridge University Press, Covent Garden, Jane Scott, The Tryal, French Revolution, Catherine Burroughs, Sarah Siddons, Hannah More, Julie Carlson, The Sword of Peace, Anne Plumptre, Leigh Hunt, Mariana Starke, Marie Antoinette, Miss Baillie's Plays, Miscellaneous Plays, The British Critic, University of Pennsylvania Press, Francis Jeffrey New!
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- British Theatre, The (25 Volumes) (BCL1-PR English Literature) by Elizabeth Inchbald on 33 pages
- British Theatre, The by Mrs. Inchbald on 33 pages
- Lover's Vows by Mrs. Inchbald on 6 pages
- Reflections on the Revolution in France & The Rights of Man by Edmund Burke on 5 pages
- Reflections on the Revolution in France (Oxford World's Classics) by Edmund Burke on 5 pages
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- Theorizing Practice: Redefining Theatre History (Redefining British Theatre History) by W. B. Worthen on page 78
- A Companion to Victorian Poetry (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) by Ciaran Cronin on page 202
- New Theatre Quarterly 67: Volume 17, Part 3 (v. 17) by Clive Barker in Back Matter
- New Theatre Quarterly 68: Volume 17, Part 4 (v. 17) by Clive Barker in Back Matter
- New Readings in Theatre History (Theatre and Performance Theory) by Jacky Bratton in Back Matter
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