Theatres of Feeling - Affect, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage

This engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the ability to feel demonstrated moral worth. Theatres of Feeling delivers a new approach to dramatic literature and performance, moving beyond more limited studies of text or performance.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Divine sympathy: theatre, connection, and virtue; 2. Dangerous pleasures: theatregoing in the eighteenth century; 3. Roman fathers and Grecian daughters: tragedy and the nation; 4. Performing the West Indies: comedy, feeling, and British identity; 5. The moral muse: comedy as social engineering; Epilogue.

About the author

Jean I. Marsden is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Her previous publications include The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth (1991), The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory (1995), Fatal Desire: Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage 1660–1720 (2006), and numerous articles or editions dealing with diverse topics ranging from Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre, children's literature, Shakespeare, to the poet Anne Finch.

Summary

This engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century explores the playhouse as a source of emotion during a period when the ability to feel demonstrated moral worth. Theatres of Feeling delivers a new approach to dramatic literature and performance, moving beyond more limited studies of text or performance.

Product details

• Authors: Jean I. Marsden, Jean I. (University of Connecticut) Marsden, Marsden Jean I.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108466998
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46699-8
• No. of pages: 235
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, DRAMA / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Theatre Studies, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, C 1700 To C 1800, Literary studies: plays and playwrights