Women''s Romantic Theatre and Drama - History, Agency, and Performativity

Zusatztext 'Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama assembles the best scholars from Italy! North America! and the United Kingdom into a single volume! and in many ways represents the culmination of three years of collective work led by Lilla Crisafulli and Keir Elam. Here is exhaustive coverage of romantic women writers' contribution to the period's theater and drama! from treatments of major writers like Elizabeth Inchbald and Joanna Baillie to essays on Scottish women's writing! translation! censorship! religion and science! and dramatic theory. Romantic theater is evidently alive and well - thanks to time well spent in Italy.' Michael Gamer! University of Pennsylvania! USA 'Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama is important not only because it directs the critical spotlight to stages and auditoriums bustling with activity! but also lifts the curtain on important 'backstage areas' such as the salon and literary closet! where women could explore new forms of agency! both individual and collective.' BARS Bulletin Informationen zum Autor Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Keir Elam are both Professors of English Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy. Klappentext Bringing together leading British, North American, and Italian critics, this collection makes a crucial intervention in the reclamation of women's theatrical activities during the Romantic period. As they examine key figures like Elizabeth Inchbald, Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Vestris, and Jane Scott, the contributors take up topics such as women's history plays, ethics and sexuality, the politics of drama and performance, and the role of women as managers and producers. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction, Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Keir Elam; Part I Historical Drama and Romantic Historiography: Baillie, Mitford, and the 'different track' of women's historical drama on the romantic stage, Greg Kucich; Historical agency in romantic women's drama, Lilla Maria Crisafulli; Hannah More's and Ann Yearsley's Anglo-Saxon history plays, Cecilia Pietropoli; Historical sieges in women's romantic drama: Felicia Hemans, Joanna Baillie and Frances Brooke, Serena Baiesi; Felicia Hemans, Schillerian drama, and the feminization of history, Gary Kelly. Part II Dramaturgical and Cultural Processes: The erotics of home: staging sexual fantasy in British women's drama, Catherine Burroughs; When Mitford met Baillie: theatre, sociability and the networks of women's romantic drama, Diego Saglia; Dramatic theory and critical discourse in Elizabeth Inchbald's Remarks on The Britis...

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• Authors: ELAM, Keir Elam, Keir (University of Bologna Italy) Elam
• Assisted by: Lilla Maria Crisafulli (Editor), Keir Elam (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138265134
• ISBN: 978-1-138-26513-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries