Book Description
This superb collection of new essays offers a unique insight into the work of a leading women dramatist of the Romantic era. Included essays provide contextual material for those new to Baillie's work, examinations of the relationships between her plays and the philosophical and scientific writing of her era, discussion of Baillie's theatrical methods, and extended interpretations of individual plays. This volume is essential reading for those working on Romanticism, women's writing, or drama of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
About the author
Thomas C. Crochunis has published essays on drama and theatre history in Gothic Studies, European Romantic Review and Romanticism on the Net , and also in several collections including Women in British Romantic Theatre and Visual Media in the Humanities. He is co-editor (with Michael Eberle-Sinatra) of the British Women Playwrights around 1800 Web project.
