| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 238 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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) |
| Summary |
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." |
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Baillie, Joanna Knowledge Performing arts |
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English drama History and criticism Theory, etc 19th century |
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English drama Women authors History and criticism Theory, etc |
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Romanticism Great Britain |
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Women and literature History 19th century Great Britain |
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Women in the theater History 19th century Great Britain |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts
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Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts
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Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851 fast |
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Baillie, Joanna. swd |
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English drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Romanticism -- Great Britain
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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Performing arts
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Romanticism
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Women and literature
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Women in the theater
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Theatertheorie
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Schriftstellerin
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Romantik
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Drama
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Geschichte 1790-1840.
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
97003949 |
| ISBN |
9781512801019 |
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1512801011 |
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