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Act Iii
Author_Keir Elam
baillie
Baillie's Plays
baillies
british
British playwrights
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Category=DS
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closet drama analysis
Constantine Paleologus
Contemporary Society
Die Jungfrau Von Orleans
Double Marginalization Effect
drury
elizabeth
Elizabeth Inchbald
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ethicized drama
feminist historiography
gender studies
inchbald
joanna
King George III
Lady Dacre
Lord Chamberlain's Office
Masculine History
Midsummer Night's Dream
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mrs Inchbald
performance studies
plays
Plays Back
playwrights
public theatre
Richard III
Romantic Era Women Writers
Romantic Historical Drama
Romantic Women Playwrights
Schillerian Drama
Social Representativeness
Sovereign Subjectivity
stage production management
Vice Versa
Warrington Academy
Women Playwrights
women's closet drama
women's history plays
women's professional practice
women's roles in romantic period theatre
writers
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138265134
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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As theatre and drama of the Romantic Period undergo a critical reassessment among scholars internationally, the contributions of women as playwrights, actresses, and managers are also being revalued. This volume, which brings together leading British, North American, and Italian critics, is a crucial step towards reclaiming the importance of women's dramatic and theatrical activities during the period. Writing for the theatre implied assuming a public role, a hazardous undertaking for women who, especially after the French Revolution, were assigned to the private, primarily domestic, sphere. As the contributors examine the covert strategies women used to become full participants in the public theatre, they shed light on the issue of women's agency, expressed both through the writing of highly politicized or ethicized drama, as in the case of Elizabeth Inchbald or Joanna Baillie, and through women's professional practice as theatre managers and stage producers, as in the case of Elizabeth Vestris and Jane Scott. Among the topics considered are women's history plays, domesticity, ethics and sexuality in women's closet drama, the politics of drama and performance, and the role of women as managers and producers. Specialists in performance studies, Romantic Period drama, and women's writing will find the essays both challenging and inspiring.
Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Keir Elam are both Professors of English Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy.
