The Plays of James Boaden
The Plays of James Boaden

Author: Steven Cohan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-18

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0429509421

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Originally compiled and published in 1980, this volume contains the plays of James Broaden. Although not many critics of eighteenth-century drama mention Broaden, he loved the theatre and its world, and this love comes across in everything he wrote. This volume contains plays including the songs and chorusses of his first, Ozmynn and Daraxa, from 1793, Fountainville Forest, from 1794, and The Secret Tribunal, from 1795, as well as many others.

Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Fiona Ritchie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-02

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1107046300

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This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.

The Gothic Novel and the Stage
The Gothic Novel and the Stage

Author: Francesca Saggini

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1317319516

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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.

Gothic Drama from Walpole to Shelley
Gothic Drama from Walpole to Shelley

Author: Bertrand Evans

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-07-15

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0520368304

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1947.

Elizabeth Inchbald's Reputation
Elizabeth Inchbald's Reputation

Author: Ben P Robertson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1317316509

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Through an examination of her complete works and public response to them, Robertson gauges the extent of Inchbald's reputation as the dignified Mrs Inchbald, as well as providing a clear sense of what it meant to be a female Romantic writer.