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Jane Austen and the Theatre. By Penny Gay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; pp. xi + 201. £37.50 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2004

Jim Davis
Jim Davis
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University of Warwick
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Extract

Penny Gay's study moves between the influence of theatre and drama on Austen's novels and theatricality itself as a mode of representation. While theatrical performance is considered, Gay's analysis generally emphasizes the impact of dramatic literature rather than theatrical representation, genre rather than performance. Through reference to the work of eighteenth-century women playwrights, Gay also places Austen's work and contemporary theatre in pervasively “masculine” and “feminine” discourses.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , May 2004 , pp. 141 - 142
Copyright
© 2004 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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