Penny Gay. Jane Austen and the Theatre.(Book Review)

Comparative Drama | March 22, 2004| | Copyright

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xi + 201. $55.00

It is a great pleasure finally to see a thoroughgoing treatment of the rich theatrical investments of one of the greatest novelists in the English tradition. Though the more obvious significance of Mansfield Park's dramatic and metadramatic set piece--a family theatrical production of Kotzebue's popular Lover's Vows--has been addressed by many scholars, consideration of the theatrical practice and performance generally ends there as well. Further, for at least the past fifty years, Lionel Trilling's ...

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