Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance, and Society, 1790–1840

by Edited by Catherine Burroughs

• ISBN13: 9780521032438
• ISBN10: 0521032431
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: uncloseting women in British romantic theatre

Historical Contexts: Revolution and Entrenchment

Baillie, Siddons, Larpent: gender, power, and politics in the theatre of

Reviewing women in British Romantic theatre

Nations, Households, Dramaturgy

Women and history on the Romantic stage: More, Yearsley, Burney, and Mitford

English national identity in Mariana Starke's The Sword of Peace: India, abolition, and the rights of women

Women's sovereignty on trial: Joanna Baillie's comedy The Tryal as metatheatrics

Performance and Closet Drama

Outing

The management of laughter: Jane Scott's Camilla the Amazon in 1998

Criticism and Theory

Elizabeth Inchbald: a woman critic in her theatrical culture

Authorial performances in the criticism and theory of Romantic women playwrights

Translation, Adaptation, Revision

Suicide and translation in the dramaturgy of

Remaking love: remorse in the theatre of Baillie and Inchbald

Bibliography

Index

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