Jane Austen and the Theatre

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
Penny Gay describes for the first time the rich theatrical context of Austen??'s writing.

Zusammenfassung
Jane Austen was fascinated by theatre from her childhood. Penny Gay describes for the first time the rich theatrical context of Austen's writing, and the intersections between her novels and contemporary drama, relating Austen's mature novels to the various genres of eighteenth-century drama.

Inhalt
1. Jane Austen and the theatre; 2. Sense and Sensibility: comic and tragic drama; 3. Northanger Abbey: Catherine's adventures in the Gothic theatre; 4. Pride and Prejudice: the comedienne and heroine; 5: Mansfield Park: Fanny's education in the theatre; 6. Emma: private theatricals in Highbury; 7. Persuasion and melodrama; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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