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Jane Austen and the Theatre

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From: Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
Date: 20040701
Author:Purinton, Marjean D

Paula Byrne, Jane Austen and the Theatre. London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2002. xvii + 283 pp. £25.00/$29.95.

Penny Gay, Jane Austen and the Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xi + 201 pp. £40.00/$55.00.

Published in the same year, two books entitled Jane Austen and the Theatre demonstrate the influence of a decade of Romantic drama studies on the analysis of the theatrical underpinnings in Austen's fiction. These books also reveal the profoundly theatrical nature of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British culture, in which performance provided a ...

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