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List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments;Introduction: uncloseting women in British Romantic theatre CatherineBurroughs; Part I. Historical Contexts: Revolution and Entrenchment: 1.Baillie, Siddons, Larpent: gender, power and politics in the theatre ofRomanticism Jeffrey N. Cox; 2. Reviewing women in British Romantic theatreGreg Kucich; Part II. Nations, Households, Dramaturgy: 3. Women and historyon the Romantic stage: More, Yearsley, Burney and Mitford Katherine Newey; 4.English national identity in Mariana Starke's The Sword of Peace: India,abolition and the rights of women Jeanne Moskal; 5. Women's sovereignty ontrial: Joanna Baillie's comedy The Tryal as metatheatrics Marjean D.Purinton; Part III. Performance and Closet Drama: 6. Outing Joanna BaillieSusan Bennett; 7. The management of laughter: Jane Scott's Camilla the Amazonin 1998 Jacky Bratton and Gilli Bush-Bailey; Part IV. Criticism and Theory:8. Elizabeth Inchbald: a woman critic in her theatrical culture MarvinCarlson; 9. Authorial performances in the criticism and theory of Romanticwomen playwrights Thomas C. Crochunis; Part V. Translation, Adaptation,Revision: 10. Suicide and translation in the dramaturgy of Elizabeth Inchbaldand Anne Plumptre Jane Moody; 11. Remaking love: remorse in the theatre ofBaillie and Inchbald Julie Carlson; Bibliography; Index.