Drama by Period - 18th to 19th Century Books

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1. Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America

   Edited by Ann L Mackenzie, Jeremy Robbins

   Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spain’s eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Introduction to her career and internationally influential writings, three previously unpublished essays by McClelland and nine studies by other scholars,...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60364-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Two Comedies by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia: Oh, These Times! and The Siberian Shaman

   Edited by Lurana Donnels O'Malley

   Catherine the Great (1729-1796) wrote over two dozen plays and operettas, but not until this edition has a complete translation of any of them been available to an English- speaking readership. Oh, These Times (1772) is a satirical attack on many vices Catherine wished to root out from her society:...

   1998 | 9789057550232 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Getting Into the Act: Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829

   By Ellen Donkin

   Getting Into the Act is a vigorous and refreshing account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional success in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Ellen Donkin relates fascinating, disturbing tales about the male theatre managers to whom they were...

   1995 | 978-0-415-08250-1 | Paperback (Routledge)