Closet Stages : Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers /

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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 the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Burroughs, Catherine B., 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Baillie, Joanna.
Baillie, Joanna, > 1762-1851.
Baillie, Joanna, > 1762-1851 > Knowledge > Performing arts.
Geschichte 1790-1840.
Drama
Romantik
Schriftstellerin
Theatertheorie
Women in the theater.
Women and literature.
Romanticism.
Performing arts.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Femmes et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes au theâtre > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Theâtre anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Women in the theater > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English drama > 19th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English drama > Women authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781512801019

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