“Dramatic Theory and Criticism in Elizabeth Inchbald’s Remarks on The British Theatre”

This paper focuses on some key aspects of Elizabeth Inchbald's _Remarks_ on the plays included in _The British Theatre_ series (1806-1809), which are considered here as a self-sufficient and consistent critical and theoretical corpus. My attention is devoted in particular to enquiring into the dinamic relationship that is posited throughout the prefaces between reading and performance, an issue to which Inchbald was acutely sensitive