Closet stages : Joanna Baillie and the theater theory of British romantic women writers

Author(s)

• Burroughs, Catherine B.

Bibliographic Information

Closet stages : Joanna Baillie and the theater theory of British romantic women writers

Catherine B. Burroughs

University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997

Note

Bibliography: p. [211]-230

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BA31163295
• ISBN:
  • 081223393X
• LCCN: 97003949
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Penn.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 238 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR4056
  • DC21 : 792/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts
  • LCSH : English drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Romanticism -- Great Britain