Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers - Rilegato

Burroughs, Catherine B.

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ISBN 10: 081223393X ISBN 13: 9780812233933

Casa editrice: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1997

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Examines theory produced by women playwrights, actresses, and spectators of the middle and upper classes, as expressed in journals, letters, and play prefaces. Shows how their concern with the performative aspects of daily life and the movement between public and private spheres produced a notion of the theater that complicates the Romantic opposition between closet and stage. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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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."

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• Editore: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 081223393X
• ISBN 13: 9780812233933
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 238