Closet Stages : : Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers / / Catherine B. Burroughs.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 1 illus.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Preface --   |t 1. "The Value of Our Criticism": Constructing Women's Theater Theory --   |t 2. Representing the Female Actor: Celebrity Narratives, Women's Theories of Acting, and Social Theaters --   |t 3. Joanna Baillie's Theater of the Closet: Female Romantic Playwrights and Preface Writing --   |t 4. Conflicted Performance Styles in Baillie's First Volume of Plays on the Passions (1798) --   |t 5. Private Theatricals and Baillie's The Tryal --   |t Appendix: Selected List of Texts Containing Women's Theater Theory Published in Great Britain (1790-1850) --   |t Notes --   |t Works Cited --   |t Index  
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