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Jane Austen and the Theatre (Paperback, New ed)
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Jane Austen and the Theatre (Paperback, New ed)
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Jane Austen was fascinated by theatre from her childhood. As an
adult she went to the theatre whenever opportunity arose. Scenes in
her novels often resemble plays, and recent film and television
versions have shown how naturally dramatic her stories are. Yet the
myth remains that she was 'anti-theatrical', and readers continue
to puzzle about the real significance of the theatricals in
Mansfield Park. 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 proposes a
'dialogue' in Austen's mature novels with the various genres of
eighteenth-century drama - laughing comedy, sentimental comedy and
tragedy, Gothic theatre, early melodrama. She re reads the novels
in the light of this dialogue to demonstrate Austen's analysis of
the pervasive theatricality of the society in which her heroines
must perform.
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