Frances Burney, dramatist : gender, performance, and the late-eighteenth-century stage / Barbara Dar...
Frances Burney, dramatist : gender, performance, and the late-eighteenth-century stage / Barbara Dar...
Frances Burney, dramatist : gender, performance, and the late-eighteenth-century stage / Barbara Darby.
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Publisher
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1997.
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N823.6/B965/25
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Gender and the stage -- Censored women : The Witlings -- Politicized bodies and the body politic : Edwy and Elgiva and Elberta -- The daughter's tragedy : Hubert De Vere and The siege of Pevensey -- "Choice" and evaluation : Love and fashion -- Family matters : A busy day and The woman-hater -- A co...
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Publisher
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1997.
Place of Publication
Kentucky
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
The position Frances Burney (1752-1840) holds as a novelist, journalist, and letter-writer is now undisputed, thanks to reevaluations of the canon in recent years. Yet she was always intrigued by, and wrote for, the stage. Though only one of Burney's dramas was performed in her lifetime, Barbara Darby places the plays in the context of performance...
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Frances Burney, dramatist : gender, performance, and the late-eighteenth-century stage / Barbara Darby.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-226) and index.
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c1997.
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N823.6/B965/25
Record Identifier
74VMb5gj5vx3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMb5gj5vx3
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ISBN
0813120225 (alk. paper)
9780813120225 (alk. paper)
DDC
823.6
MMS ID
991000962859702626
