Staging 'The Mysterious Mother'

The first book-length study of Horace Walpole's scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edition

About the author

Cynthia E. Roman is curator of prints, drawings, and paintings at the Lewis Walpole Library. Jill Campbell is professor of English and affiliated faculty in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. Jonathan Kramnick is the Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University and the director of the Lewis Walpole Library.

Summary

The first book-length study of Horace Walpole’s scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edition

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia E. Campbell Roman
• Assisted by: Jill Campbell (Editor), Campbell Jill (Editor), Jonathan Kramnick (Editor), Cynthia E. Roman (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9780300263657
• ISBN: 978-0-300-26365-7
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights