This essay discusses how I incorporated readers theatre into a senior seminar on Jane Austen and her contemporaries. The article recounts how my students read Elizabeth Inchbald’s 1798 drama, Lovers’ Vows, and Austen’s 1814 novel, Mansfield Park, and then were inspired at the end of the seminar to take part in a readers theatre production of the play. In order to set up this pedagogical example, the essay addresses the theatrical episode of Mansfield Park, the controversies surrounding Lovers’ Vows, and the ways in which I edited the play and prepared students to create a “little theatre”—to quote Austen character, Tom Bertram—at my university and become their own version of The Mansfield Players. The essay concludes by explaining what stud...
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This essay discusses how I incorporated readers theatre into a senior seminar on Jane Austen and her...
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Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2020This thesis examines tragicomedy in two 19th Centu...
This essay explores how the popular film Austenland (2013) comically exposes some of the narrative c...
The importance of didacticism in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice may sometimes be overlooked in an...
This essay discusses how I incorporated readers theatre into a senior seminar on Jane Austen and her...
Of Jane Austen\u27s full-length novels, Mansfield Park deals most directly with theatrical subjects,...
This essay explores the connection between Shakespearean drama and the novel’s representation of int...
This paper analyzes Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey in terms of genre. In particul...
In my senior seminar on Jane Austen, I seek to engage students in multiple ways. On one hand, I want...
Spectator Narratives: Print Representations of Performance and Nineteenth-Century Audiences examines...
The object of this thesis is to demonstrate the ways in which modern spinoff novels are changing the...
Julia Bertram may have missed out on the starring role she wanted in Lovers' Vows, but her author co...
This article reviews the world premiere of Kate Hamill's Mansfield Park directed by Stuart Carden an...
This study examines how Jane Austen’s knowledge of theatricality and performance influenced her work...
In Jane Austen’s works, the role and expectations of women in the 18th and 19th centuries are both r...
Jane Austen wrote her novels over two hundred years ago. Today many people, especially women, are st...
Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2020This thesis examines tragicomedy in two 19th Centu...
This essay explores how the popular film Austenland (2013) comically exposes some of the narrative c...
The importance of didacticism in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice may sometimes be overlooked in an...