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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1997.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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).


