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Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Adam Budd Duke University Press 2007
Why Clarissa Must Die:
Richardson’s Tragedy and Editorial Heroism
Adam Budd
University of Edinburgh
When Samuel Richardson released the final...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 7–23.
Published: 01 September 2024
...‐tragedy's depiction of enslaved European women in the Ottoman Empire. Evoking Desdemona in the then‐popular Othello , Imoinda offers a rare moment when the actress's whiteness is named as such diegetically. The stage Oroonoko shines a spotlight on the way that gendered performance worked through...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 56–78.
Published: 01 January 2022
...David Francis Taylor Much recent criticism of Joseph Addison's Cato (1713) regards the tragedy as determinedly resistant to its eponymous protagonist's stoic heroism. Cato , it is argued, critiques Cato. But this wasn't how Addison's immediate contemporaries experienced the play. For many...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 23–40.
Published: 01 September 2019
... to 1770 (1809) and its composition following her mastectomy in 1811. Many of the themes in “Consolatory Extracts” suggest that Burney’s memorializing of Susan is similarly borne out in her fictional works, particularly her unfinished tragedy Elberta (1785–1814) and her novel The Wanderer (1814...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 110–114.
Published: 01 September 2007
... how the particular form of the woman-centered tragedy of 1680 to 1715
did, in fact, encourage a problematic voyeuristic experience that makes the
cinematic theory applicable.
Acknowledging the paucity of fi rsthand reports, Marsden turns next to
the female spectator as constructed in debates...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (2): 138–158.
Published: 01 April 2008
...
nomic authority. Actual women engaged in rivalries kept heroic tragedies
such as Nathaniel Lee’s The Rival Queens, and other plays resembling it,
viable. The characteristic scene of two women locked in combat remained
a staple of the genre from The Mourning Bride (Zara-Alemeria), to All for
Love...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 137–140.
Published: 01 January 2025
..., a tragedy to those that feel,” wrote Horace Walpole, a noted lover of all things theatrical. But comedy as an object of study is more elusive than Walpole's pithy line implies. By “comedy,” do we mean primarily dramas that end happily, perhaps with a wedding, rather than, with tragedy, a death? Is laughter...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of
Shakespeare’s legacy — the supernatural plot and the mixture of tragedy and
comedy — and to put them to proud use.6 As I will show below, the British
propensity for macabre theatrical display was no less controversial in Wal-
pole’s day, and it likewise drew considerable negative attention, but while...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (2): 92–114.
Published: 01 April 2009
....
Drama provides more scope for, and a stronger tradition of, sentimen-
tal distress than poetry. Plays, particularly historical tragedies, were often
used to comment on contemporary war, and many incorporate instances of
cruelty and suffering.24 Arthur Murphy exploits the immediacy of perfor-
mance...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (3): 112–122.
Published: 01 September 2012
..., not
character, is the true focus of the novel. In this sense, she rejects the familiar
labeling of novels as “anti-tragic,” because they invert the relationship between
character and plot that we find in tragedy, another of Watt’s claims that has
met with wide acceptance. In classic tragedy, of course...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (1): 95–100.
Published: 01 January 2021
... on the front cover. McLaverty is sole editor of the two most substantial (and hitherto unpublished) texts in the collection, Hervey s verse translation of part of Fénelon s Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699) and his unperformed verse tragedy Agrippina. It is clear that in completing Overton s work, McLaverty...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 83–86.
Published: 01 September 2015
... other plays (sometimes his own). They vary widely in tone and
subject matter, from domestic comedy, to ballad opera, to mock-tragedy, to
satire, to outright burlesque, and in form, from the short single-act afterpiece,
to the traditional five-act drama, with many variations in between. What...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (3): 99–123.
Published: 01 September 2003
... discussions on an unsolvable problem.
Both Anna and Clarissa’s inability to translate proverbs into action
that avoids tragedy and Lovelace’s misappropriation of his uncle’s wisdom
must be accounted for if the epistemological anxieties the text produces are
to be allayed. How do readers know what...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (1): 107–112.
Published: 01 January 2014
... attested
heroes enable readers to make a powerful emotional connection that depends
on belief — not suspending disbelief, but just believing. (Comedy is an excep-
tion to this, as it deals with invented characters, but as a low form it does not
move one in the way that tragedy or epic does...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (3): 51–77.
Published: 01 September 2006
... produced
in London. The fi rst act of Brutus was, in fact, originally written in English.
Consequently, the plays have been understood as infl uenced by English notions of
liberty. In his preface to Brutus from Discours sur la tragédie à Mylord Bolinbroke in
Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire, 54 vols...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (2): 140–150.
Published: 01 April 2013
... of the world that permits this immeasurable tragedy and injustice”
(207). Mourning Happiness means finally to foster in us the intransigent “will
to make a world of happiness before another person dies whom we must pro-
nounce unhappy” (410).
MacIntyre has of late allowed his works to be described...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (2): 30–65.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., Number 2, April 2015 doi 10.1215/00982601-2875329
Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press
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The Histrionic Mirror and Georgian-Era Performance 3 1
Upon our Stage two Glasses oft there be,
The Comick Mirrour, and the Tragedy...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 24–45.
Published: 01 January 2002
... of
Great Britain,” William Tasker urged Britain to rouse herself to defeat the
aggressors;5 in the summer of 1778 Richard Cumberland’s tragedy The
Battle of Hastings told a tale of forlorn Saxon daring and love in troubled
times; at the Haymarket George Colman revived John...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2009) 33 (1): 19–27.
Published: 01 January 2009
.... Staves’s appreciation of Astell’s
wit, Rowe’s sublimity, Catherine Trotter’s domestic tragedy, and Judith Drake’s
engaging defense of women’s role in the “public sphere” seconds the arguments
of scholars such as Margaret Ezell that encourage attention to writings, par-
ticularly religious writings...
Journal Article
Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 216–220.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Jack Lynch Vanessa Cunningham. Shakespeare and Garrick (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2008). Pp. vii + 231. 9 ills. $99 Reiko Oya. Representing Shakespearean Tragedy: Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2007). Pp. xii + 244. 20 ills. $95 Stuart Sillars...
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