Baillie, Joanna (Vol. 151) | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Bennett, Susan. “Genre Trouble: Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Polack—Tragic Subjects, Melodramatic Subjects.” In Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin, pp. 215-32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Argues that traditional genres are too confining for women playwrights of the nineteenth century, focusing specifically on Baillie's The Family Legend.
Burroughs, Catherine B. “English Romantic Women Writers and Theatre Theory: Joanna Baillie's Prefaces to the Plays on the Passions.” In Re-Visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837, edited by Carol Shiner Wilson and Joel Haefner, pp. 274-96. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Argues that a true understanding of what Baillie and other female playwrights of her era chose as subject matter will cause scholars to reevaluate traditional...
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