Closet Stages : Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers / Catherine B. Burroughs
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #406348
ISBN: 081223393X
Physical description; 238 pages, 23.5 cm. Contents; Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. "The Value of Our Criticism": Constructing Women's Theater Theory -- 2. Representing the Female Actor: Celebrity Narratives, Women's Theories of Acting, and Social Theaters -- 3. Joanna Baillie's Theater of the Closet: Female Romantic Playwrights and Preface Writing -- 4. Conflicted Performance Styles in Baillie's First Volume of Plays on the Passions (1798) -- 5. Private Theatricals and Baillie's The Tryal -- Appendix: Selected List of Texts Containing Women's Theater Theory Published in Great Britain (1790-1850) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. Subjects; Baillie, Joanna 1762-1851 Knowledge Performing arts. English drama 19th century History and criticism Theory, etc. Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century. Women in the theater Great Britain History 19th century.
Price: €48.00