Closet Stages : Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers /
Burroughs, Catherine B.
Closet Stages : Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers / Catherine B. Burroughs. - 1 online resource (256 p.) : 1 illus.
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
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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 theater arts, Catherine Burroughs reveals how a concern with the performative aspects of daily life and the movement between public and private spheres produced a notion of theater that complicates the Romantic opposition between "closet" and "stage."
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812233933 9781512801019
10.9783/9781512801019 doi
English drama--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
English drama--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--19th century
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women in the theater--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Cultural Studies.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
PR4056 / .B87 1997
792/.01
Closet Stages : Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers / Catherine B. Burroughs. - 1 online resource (256 p.) : 1 illus.
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 theater arts, Catherine Burroughs reveals how a concern with the performative aspects of daily life and the movement between public and private spheres produced a notion of theater that complicates the Romantic opposition between "closet" and "stage."
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812233933 9781512801019
10.9783/9781512801019 doi
English drama--Women authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
English drama--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--19th century
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women in the theater--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Cultural Studies.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
PR4056 / .B87 1997
792/.01