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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Trotter | The letters published by Birch reflect an intellect dealing in literary as well as moral debate. To Thomas Burnet of KemnayCT
wrote of religious and philosophical matters; he was her link to currents of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dorothy Bussy | In this text the titular heroine narrates her experiences at the French boarding school Les Avons. Here, Olivia forms friendships with several other schoolgirls, but is most fascinated by her headmistress, Mlle Julie, who runs... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Morgan describes chiefly Paris and its society, ostensibly on the model of Germaine de Staël
's L'Allemagne. She does indeed include French culture centrally among her topics: she criticises the works of Corneille
and... |
Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | |
Textual Production | Charlotte Lennox | Garrick rejected another of CL
's dramatic works in 1774: Bajazet, a tragedy translated and adapted from Jean Racine
. Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 327 |
Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
Textual Features | Anne Dacier | Dacier maintained that Terence had conformed in his plots to the unities of time, place, and action (which were highly valued by pundits of the time, and obeyed by French classical tragedians like Corneille
and... |
Performance of text | Jane Robe | Late in the season, JR
's tragedy (and only known work) The Fatal Legacy, translated from La Thébaïde by Jean Racine
, opened at Lincoln's Inn Fields
; it ran just three nights. Mann, David D. et al. Women Playwrights in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1660-1823. Indiana University Press. 397 |
Literary responses | Sarah Kane | Meanwhile fellow-playwright Mark Ravenhill
, having initially concluded from the reviews that this was a bad play, was astonished at reading the first few lines and knowing that I was in the hands of a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Thomas | The quotations that head her chapters range through more than a dozen well-known male names from Shakespeare
through Racine
in French, Prior
and Pope
to Sterne
and Burke
, plus a couple of unidentified women.... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Barker | JB
opens this work with a nostalgic glance backward at about sixty-six years of political thinking and literary writing. Her dedication To the Ladies is immensely engaging. She takes up the story of Galesia, now... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Wright | Her poetry includes discussion of such serious subjects as time and work, devotional poems, biblical paraphrase, an imitation of neoclassical tragedian Jean Racine
, pieces to mark specific occasions such as births and deaths, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Kane | This play recalls Racine
's version of the story in Phèdre, but actually refers to Racine's source, Seneca
's Phaedra (perhaps following in the footsteps of Caryl Churchill
's version of Seneca's Thyestes... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Sarah Murray | Frances Milton never blames her father for his unkindness; she still owes him total gratitude and devotion, which she seems to regard as on a par with our debt of love and gratitude to God... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kate O'Brien | The love of Tom and Angèle—her early perception that I love him; I love him enough O’Brien, Kate. The Last of Summer. Virago. 122 |