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L’essenza e l’assenza. Il teatro di Frances Burney tra lungo palcoscenico e neverstage
Saggini, Francesca
2023
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2283-6438
Abstract
This article discusses the neglected dramatic works of Frances Burney and how they were overshadowed by her father’s opposition to the theatre. Despite the publication of her Complete Plays in 1995, there has been little interest in examining the tragic aspect of Burney’s work. “L’essenza e l’assenza. Il teatro di Frances Burney tra lungo palcoscenico e neverstage” adds a new dimension to the study of Burney’s serious drama by focusing on Hubert De Vere. A Pastoral Tragedy written during Burney’s years at court. Despite the apparent interest of John Philip Kemble, the greatest tragic actor of the day and longtime manager of R. B. Sheridan’s Drury Lane, Hubert De Vere never saw the stage or the printed page, foreshadowing its subsequent critical eclipse. Burney continued to rewrite, reread, and reflect on this text for the rest of her life, thus justifying my definition of ‘long stage.’ A veritable intertextual and intermedial crucible, Hubert de Vere bears witness to the fault lines of the transformation of models and forms in Burney’s dramaturgy, combining them within the ‘neverstage,’ an imaginary stage dominated by Shakespeare, the eighteenth-century tragic tradition, Gothic drama and, not least, anti-theatrical shadows. This research was funded by the Horizon 2020 project ‘Opening Romanticism: Reimagining Romantic Drama for New Audiences’ (OpeRaNew) ID 892230, under the Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF-2019 programme. Francesca Saggini is the Principal Investigator of the project.
Source
Francesca Saggini, "L’essenza e l’assenza. Il teatro di Frances Burney tra lungo palcoscenico e neverstage" in: "2023 / 28 Prospero. Rivista di letterature e culture straniere", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, 2023, pp. 29-53
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