Jane Austen and the Theatre

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Cambridge University Press, 2006 M03 16 - 216 páginas
Jane Austen was fascinated by theater from her childhood, but the myth remains that she was anti-theatrical. Contemporary film and television have shown how naturally dramatic her stories are. Penny Gay's book describes for the first time the rich theatrical context of Austen's writing, and the intersections between her novels and contemporary drama. Gay relates Austen's mature novels to the various genres of eighteenth-century drama--laughing comedy, sentimental comedy and tragedy, Gothic theatre, early melodrama. She demonstrates the complexity of Austen's analysis of the pervasive theatricality of her society.

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Jane Austens experience of theatre
1
Sense and Sensibility comic and tragic drama
26
Northanger Abbey Catherines adventures in the Gothic theatre
52
Pride and Prejudice the comedienne as heroine
73
Mansfield Park Fannys education in the theatre
98
Emma private theatricals in Highbury
123
Persuasion and melodrama
147
Epilogue
166
Notes
168
Bibliography
193
Index
199
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Penny Gay is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney, where she also teaches performance studies. Her 1994 book As She Likes It: Shakespeare's Unruly Women was the first feminist study of the performances of Shakespeare's comic heroines, and she has since published separate studies of The Merchant of Venice and As You Like It.

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