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

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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. "The Value of Our Criticism": Constructing Women's Theater Theory
  • 2. Representing the Female Actor: Celebrity Narratives, Women's Theories of Acting, and Social Theaters
  • 3. Joanna Baillie's Theater of the Closet: Female Romantic Playwrights and Preface Writing
  • 4. Conflicted Performance Styles in Baillie's First Volume of Plays on the Passions (1798)
  • 5. Private Theatricals and Baillie's The Tryal
  • App. Selected List of Texts Containing Women's Theater Theory Published in Great Britain (1790-1850).