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18th century drama

18th century drama. Reformed comedies Sentimental comedies Farces, harlequinades Romances Tragi-comedies Neo-classical plays Affective tragedies (often she-tragedies). Female writers: 1st half of 18th century. Mary Davys: The Humours of York Elizabeth Cooper: The Rival Widows

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18th century drama

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  1. 18th centurydrama Reformed comedies Sentimental comedies Farces, harlequinades Romances Tragi-comedies Neo-classical plays Affective tragedies (often she-tragedies)

  2. Female writers: 1st half of 18th century • Mary Davys: The Humoursof York • Elizabeth Cooper: The RivalWidows • Charlotte Charke • Lady Mary Montagu: TurkishEmbassy Letters • Elizabeth Haywood: A WifetobeLet (1723) • The Fair Captive • Love in Excess 1719-20 • Adventures ofEovaai

  3. Femalewriters: 1st half ofthe 18th century • Sarah Fielding: Adventures of David Simple (1744) • The Governess(1749) • Charlotte Lennox: The Female Quixote (1752)

  4. Female writers: 2nd half of the 18th century • Laughingcomedy vs. sentimental comedy • Elizabeth Griffith: The PlatonicWife1765 • Hannah Cowley: The Belle‘s Strategem 1780 A BoldStrokefor a Husband(1783) • A School forGreybeards (1786) • Tragedies/seriousdrama • Elizabeth Inchbald: Such Things Are (1787) Mariana Starke: The WidowofMalabar 1790 • Joanna Baillie: Count Basil

  5. Femalewriters: 2nd half of 18th century • Hannah More: Percy 1777 (tragedy) • Coelebs in Searchof a Wife (1809) • Fanny Burney: The Witlings(comedy) Evelina 1778 Cecilia 1782 • Mary Wollstonecraft: VindicationsoftheRightsofWoman(1792) • Charlotte Smith, Mary Hays, Amelia Opie: mixtureof (political) radicalismandsentimentality

  6. Gothic novels • [Horace Walpole: Castle ofOtranto] • Clara Reeve: The Old English Baron (1777) • Ann Radcliffe: The RomanceoftheForest • The MysteriesofUdolpho(1794) • The Italian • [Mathew Lewis: The Monk] • Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (1818) • Parody: Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey (publ. posthumously 1818)

  7. Architecture

  8. Gothic fiction • (pseudo) medievalGothic; orientalGothic, imperial Gothicetc • 19th century: Brontes, E.A. Poe, Hawthorne, Dickens, Stoker, Wells (Island ofDr Moreau 1896) • The sublime (< Burke: PhilosophicalEnquiryintothe Origin ofOurIdeasofthe Sublime andBeautiful): feelingofawe/pleasure/terror/fear in viewofsomethinggrand, whichisbothbeautifulandthreateningatthe same time.

  9. Jane Austen • Northanger Abbey • Sense and Sensibility (publ. 1811) • Pride and Prejudice (publ. 1813) • Mansfield Park (publ. 1814) • Emma (publ. 1816) • Persuasion (publ. 1818)

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