The Plays of Elizabeth Inchbald
Author | : Elizabeth Inchbald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Elizabeth Inchbald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : Mrs. Inchbald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Dugan |
Publisher | : c1978. |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Annibel Jenkins |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2014-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813159644 |
Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753--1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late eighteenth century -- an actress, a successful playwright and editor of several collections of plays, a popular novelist, and a drama critic. Considered a beautiful, independent woman, Inchbald was much involved in the theatrical, literary, and publishing life of London. Elizabeth Simpson ran away from home at age eighteen to seek fame as an actress in London and quickly married Joseph Inchbald, an actor twice her age. They toured the stage together until his sudden death in 1779. She made her London stage debut a year later, and her writing debut came in 1784 with the play The Mogul Tale; Or, The Descent of the Balloon. Over the next two decades she wrote or adapted twenty-one plays: comedies, farces, and works from French and German, including the version of Kotzebue's Lovers' Vows, later used in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Inchbald's acclaimed first novel, A Simple Story, prefigured the work of later women writers such as Austen. Using material from Inchbald's own pocket books detailing her daily life (she destroyed most of her letters and journals late in her life at the advice of her Catholic confessor) as well as a wealth of other sources, Annibel Jenkins tells for the first time not only the full story of Mrs. Inchbald's life but also provides a fascinating look at the society and politics, both public and private, of London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Author | : Inchbald |
Publisher | : Alpha Edition |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-06-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789357393218 |
Lovers' Vows by Mrs. Inchbald has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.
Author | : Andrea Maria Katharina Schwedler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mrs. Inchbald |
Publisher | : Dissertations-G |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Emily Hodgson Anderson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2009-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135838682 |
This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays. Here, Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen explore theatrical frames--from the playhouse, to the social conventions of masquerade, to the fictional frame of the novel itself—that encourage audiences to dismiss what they contain as feigned. Yet such frames also, as a result, create a safe space for self-expression. These authors explore such payoffs both within their work—through descriptions of heroines who disguise themselves to express themselves—and through it. Reading the act of authorship as itself a form of performance, Anderson contextualizes the convention of fictionality that accompanied the development of the novel; she notes that as the novel, like the theater of the earlier eighteenth century, came to highlight its fabricated nature, authors could use it as a covert yet cathartic space. Fiction for these authors, like theatrical performance for the actor, thus functions as an act of both disclosure and disguise—or finally presents self-expression as the ability to oscillate between the two, in "the play of fiction."
Author | : Mrs. Inchbald |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2018-05-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3732691373 |
Reproduction of the original: A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald
Author | : Annibel Jenkins |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 851 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813193931 |
Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753–1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late eighteenth century—an actress, a successful playwright and editor of several collections of plays, a popular novelist, and a drama critic. Considered a beautiful, independent woman, Inchbald was much involved in the theatrical, literary, and publishing life of London. Elizabeth Simpson ran away from home at age eighteen to seek fame as an actress in London and quickly married Joseph Inchbald, an actor twice her age. They toured the stage together until his sudden death in 1779. She made her London stage debut a year later, and her writing debut came in 1784 with the play The Mogul Tale; Or, The Descent of the Balloon. Over the next two decades she wrote or adapted twenty-one plays: comedies, farces, and works from French and German, including the version of Kotzebue's Lovers' Vows, later used in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Inchbald's acclaimed first novel, A Simple Story, prefigured the work of later women writers such as Austen. Using material from Inchbald's own pocket books detailing her daily life (she destroyed most of her letters and journals late in her life at the advice of her Catholic confessor) as well as a wealth of other sources, Annibel Jenkins tells for the first time not only the full story of Mrs. Inchbald's life but also provides a fascinating look at the society and politics, both public and private, of London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.