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THST 2010 : Theatre Historical Studies Essay Notes

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10 Dec 2011
School
University of Guelph
Department
Theatre Studies
Course
THST 2010
Professor
Paul A Mulholland

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Sarah anne curzon and her dramatic work laura secord, the heroine of 1812. Remained in the closet of canadian literary criticism. Michael tait: of all branches of canadian literature, nineteenth-century drama has received least attention for reasons that are entirely understandable . Tait sates: formless, ineffective characterization, pretentious moral attitudes, lack of stylistic distinction, stupefying prolixity. Studies previous to derksen had overlooked characteristics of plays by women. Murray edwards dismisses curzon"s work and its feminist content was. Somewhat colored by and intense concern with the rights of women . Carole gerson terms the still prevalent modernist critical embargo of feminine" concerns and the subsequent demotion of social and domestic issues as. Curzon"s plays are easily criticized: stylistically derivative and unsophisticated, worrisomely imperialistic, elitist, painfully melodramatic, sentimental and didactic. Critics fail to give credit for curzon"s approach: manipulating convention and conventionality for her own purpose. Constructions of gender and nation were manipulated.

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