Jean I. Marsden's Books

Theatres of Feeling

Affect, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage

By: Jean I. Marsden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Theatres of Feeling

Affect, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage

By: Jean I. Marsden

Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

237

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108476139

ISBN 13

9781108476133

The Re-Imagined Text

Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory

By: Jean I. Marsden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Re-Imagined Text

Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory

By: Jean I. Marsden

Shakespeare's plays were not always the inviolable texts they are almost universally considered to be today. The Restoration and eighteenth century committed what many critics view as one of the most subversive acts in literary history—the rewriting and restructuring of Shakespeare's plays. Many of us are familiar with Nahum Tate's "audacious" adaptation of King Lear with its resoundingly happy ending, but Tate was only one of a score of playwrights who adapted Shakespeare's plays. Between 1660 and 1777, more than fifty adaptations appeared in print and on the stage, works in which playwrights augmented, substantially cut, or completely rewrote the original plays. The plays were staged with new characters, new scenes, new endings, and, underlying all this novelty, new words. Why did this happen? And why, in the later eighteenth century, did it stop? These questions have serious implications regarding both the aesthetics of the literary text and its treatment, for the adaptations manifest the period's perceptions of Shakespeare. As such, they demonstrate an important evolution in the definition of poetic language, and in the idea of what constitutes a literary work. In The Re-Imagined Text, Jean I. Marsden examines both the adaptations and the network of literary theory that surrounds them, thereby exploring the problems of textual sanctity and of the author's relationship to the text. As she demonstrates, Shakespeare's works, and English literature in general, came to be defined by their words rather than by the plots and morality on which the older aesthetic theory focused—a clear step toward our modern concern for the word and its varying levels of signification.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

283

Publisher

University Press of Kentucky

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813185556

ISBN 13

9780813185552

Fatal Desire

Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660–1720

By: Jean I. Marsden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fatal Desire

Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660–1720

By: Jean I. Marsden

Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century—a period when for the first time female actors could perform in public. Jean I. Marsden maintains that the feminization of serious drama during this period is tied to the cultural function of theater. Women served as symbols of both domestic and imperial propriety, and so Marsden links the representation of women on the stage to the social context in which the plays appeared and to the moral and often political lessons they offered the audience. The witty heroines of comedies were usually absorbed into the social fabric by marrying similarly lighthearted gentlemen, but the heroines of tragedy suffered for their sins, real or perceived. That suffering served the dual purpose of titillating and educating the theater audience. Marsden discusses such plays as William Wycherley's Plain Dealer (1676), John Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife (1697), Thomas Otway's Orphan (1680), Thomas Southerne's Fatal Marriage (1694), and William Congreve's Mourning Bride (1697). The author also addresses tragedies written by three female playwrights, Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley, and sketches developments in tragedy during the period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501728520

ISBN 13

9781501728525

The Re-Imagined Text

Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory

By: Jean I. Marsden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Re-Imagined Text

Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory

By: Jean I. Marsden

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

283

Publisher

University Press of Kentucky

Published Date

ISBN 10

0813185556

ISBN 13

9780813185552

Fatal Desire

Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660–1720

By: Jean I. Marsden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Fatal Desire

Women, Sexuality, and the English Stage, 1660–1720

By: Jean I. Marsden

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

226

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501728520

ISBN 13

9781501728525

Theatres of Feeling

Affect, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage

By: Jean I. Marsden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Theatres of Feeling

Affect, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage

By: Jean I. Marsden

Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

237

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108476139

ISBN 13

9781108476133

Book's by Jean I. Marsden

Theatres of Feeling

Theatres of Feeling

The Re-Imagined Text

The Re-Imagined Text

Fatal Desire

Fatal Desire

The Re-Imagined Text

The Re-Imagined Text

Fatal Desire

Fatal Desire

Theatres of Feeling

Theatres of Feeling

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email