Keir Elam

Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama (eBook, PDF)

History, Agency, and Performativity
Redaktion: Crisafulli, Lilla Maria

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351871198
• Artikelnr.: 49354371

Autorenporträt

Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Keir Elam are both Professors of English Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

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 British Theatre
Franca Dellarosa; Elizabeth Inchbald: translation as mediation and re-writing
Vita M. Mastrosilvestri; Negotiating voices in romantic theatre: Scottish women playwrights
gender and performativity
Gioia Angeletti. Part III Women Staging
Women Staged: Inchbald
Holcroft and the censorship of Jacobin theatre
Jane Moody; From darkness to light: science and religion on Joanna Baillie's stage
Isabella Imperiali; Poses and pauses: Sarah Siddons and the romantic theatrical portrait
Claudia Corti; When 'poetry and stage do agree together': Elizabeth Vestris's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Stefania Magnoni; Bibliography; Index.