Closet Stages


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Closet Stages


Closet Stages
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Author : Catherine B. Burroughs
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-08-05

Closet Stages written by Catherine B. Burroughs and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-05 with Literary Criticism categories.


Closet Stages examines theater theory produced by middle- and upper-class British women-playwrights, actresses, and spectators-between 1790 and 1840. Shifting the focus away from the Romantic male writers to the journals, letters, and play prefaces in which women framed their relationship to the theater arts, Catherine Burroughs reveals how a concern with the performative aspects of daily life and the movement between public and private spheres produced a notion of theater that complicates the Romantic opposition between "closet" and "stage."



Closet Drama


Closet Drama
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Author : Catherine Burroughs
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-08-29

Closet Drama written by Catherine Burroughs and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-29 with Drama categories.


Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre. Examining an unusual mix of historical narratives, performances, and texts from the Renaissance to the present, this collection unleashes a provocative array of theoretical concerns about the phenomenon of the closet play—a dramatic text written for reading rather than acting.



Privacy Playreading And Women S Closet Drama 1550 1700


Privacy Playreading And Women S Closet Drama 1550 1700
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Author : Marta Straznicky
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-11-25

Privacy Playreading And Women S Closet Drama 1550 1700 written by Marta Straznicky and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-25 with Drama categories.


Marta Straznicky offers a detailed historical analysis of early modern women's closet plays: plays explicitly written for reading, rather than public performance. She reveals that such works were part of an alternative dramatic tradition, an elite and private literary culture, which was understood as intellectually superior to and politically more radical than commercial drama. Elizabeth Cary, Jane Lumley, Anne Finch and Margaret Cavendish wrote their plays in this conjunction of the public and the private at a time when male playwrights dominated the theatres. In her astute readings of the texts, their contexts and their physical appearance in print or manuscript, Straznicky has produced many fresh insights into the place of women's closet plays both in the history of women's writing and in the history of English drama.



The Gothic Novel And The Stage


The Gothic Novel And The Stage
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Author : Francesca Saggini
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-12

The Gothic Novel And The Stage written by Francesca Saggini and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-12 with Literary Criticism categories.


In this ground-breaking study Saggini explores the relationship between the late eighteenth-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspiration to novelists.



The Arms Bearing Woman And British Theatre In The Age Of Revolution 1789 1815


The Arms Bearing Woman And British Theatre In The Age Of Revolution 1789 1815
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Author : Sarah Burdett
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-05-20

The Arms Bearing Woman And British Theatre In The Age Of Revolution 1789 1815 written by Sarah Burdett and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.


This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre as an arena in which the significance of the armed woman is constantly remodelled and reappropriated to fulfil diverse ideological functions. Used to challenge as well as to enforce established notions of sex and gender difference, she is fashioned also as an allegorical tool, serving both to condemn and to champion political and social rebellion at home and abroad. Magnifying heroines who appear on stage wielding pistols, brandishing daggers, thrusting swords, and even firing explosives, the study spotlights the intricate and often surprising ways in which the stage amazon interacts with Anglo-French, Anglo-Irish, Anglo-German, and Anglo-Spanish debates at varying moments across the French revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns. At the same time, it foregrounds the extent to which new dramatic genres imported from Europe –notably, the German Sturm und Drang and the French-derived melodrama– facilitate possibilities at the turn of the nineteenth century for a refashioned female warrior, whose degree of agency, destructiveness, and heroism surpasses that of her tragic and sentimental predecessors.



Women S Romantic Theatre And Drama


Women S Romantic Theatre And Drama
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Author : Lilla Maria Crisafulli
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2010

Women S Romantic Theatre And Drama written by Lilla Maria Crisafulli and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Collections categories.


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.



Romanticism Medicine And The Poet S Body


Romanticism Medicine And The Poet S Body
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Author : James Robert Allard
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2007-01-01

Romanticism Medicine And The Poet S Body written by James Robert Allard and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.


James Allard's book restores the physical body to its proper place in Romantic studies by exploring the status of the human body during the stunning historical moment that witnessed the emergence of Romantic literature alongside the professionalization of medical practice. His central subject is the Poet-Physician, a hybrid figure in the works of the medically trained Keats, Thelwall, and Beddoes, who embodies the struggles over discrepancies and affinities between medicine and poetry.



The Celebrated Hannah Cowley


The Celebrated Hannah Cowley
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Author : Angela Escott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06

The Celebrated Hannah Cowley written by Angela Escott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Literary Criticism categories.


Hannah Cowley (1743–1809) was a very successful dramatist, and something of an eighteenth-century celebrity. New critical interest in the drama of this period has meant a resurgence of interest in Cowley’s writing and in the performance of her plays. This is the first substantial monograph study to examine Cowley’s life and work.



Performing The Unstageable


Performing The Unstageable
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Author : Karen Quigley
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-20

Performing The Unstageable written by Karen Quigley and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Performing Arts categories.


From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's King Lear or Sarah Kane's Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure examines this phenomenon of what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various points in its history. The book explores four principal areas to which unstageability most frequently pertains: stage directions, adaptations, violence and ghosts. Karen Quigley incorporates a wide range of case studies of both historical and contemporary theatrical productions including the Wooster Group's exploration of Hamlet via the structural frame of John Gielgud's 1964 filmed production, Elevator Repair Service's eight-hour staging of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and a selection of impossible stage directions drawn from works by such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, Philip Glass, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Alistair McDowall. Placing theatre history and performance analysis in such a context, Performing the Unstageable values what is not possible, and investigates the tricky underside of theatre's most fundamental function to bring things to the place of showing: the stage.



Spencer S Universal Stage


Spencer S Universal Stage
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Author : Charles H. Spencer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867

Spencer S Universal Stage written by Charles H. Spencer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1867 with categories.