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]
©1997
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 1 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 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
  • Appendix: Selected List of Texts Containing Women's Theater Theory Published in Great Britain (1790-1850)
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index