Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. "The Value of Our Criticism": Constructing Women's Theater Theory 1
5. 2. Representing the Female Actor: Celebrity Narratives, Women's Theories of Acting, and Social Theaters 27
6. 3. Joanna Baillie's Theater of the Closet: Female Romantic Playwrights and Preface Writing 74
7. 4. Conflicted Performance Styles in Baillie's First Volume of Plays on the Passions (1798) 110
8. 5. Private Theatricals and Baillie's The Tryal 143
9. Appendix: Selected List of Texts Containing Women's Theater Theory Published in Great Britain (1790-1850) 169
10. Notes 173
11. Works Cited 211
12. Index 231