The Massacre

The Massacre
Author: Elizabeth Inchbald
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781409968566
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Elizabeth Inchbald, nee Simpson (1753-1821) was an English novelist, actress, and dramatist. At the age of 19 she went to London in order to act. In 1772 she agreed to marry the actor Joseph Inchbald (1735-1779). For four years the couple toured Scotland with West Digges's theatre company, a demanding life. After Joseph Inchbald's death in 1779, she continued to act for several years, in Dublin, London, and elsewhere. Between 1784 and 1805 she had nineteen of her comedies, sentimental dramas, and farces (many of which were translations from the French) performed at London theatres. Eighteen of her plays were published, though she wrote several more; the exact number is in dispute though most recent commentators claim between 21and 23. Her two novels have been frequently reprinted. She also did considerable editorial and critical work. A four-volume autobiography was destroyed before her death upon the advice of her confessor, but she left some of her diaries. The latter are currently held at the Folger Shakespeare Library and an edition was recently published.

I'll Tell You What

I'll Tell You What
Author: Annibel Jenkins
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813159644
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Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753–1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late eighteenth century—an actress, a successful playwright and editor of several collections of plays, a popular novelist, and a drama critic. Considered a beautiful, independent woman, Inchbald was much involved in the theatrical, literary, and publishing life of London. Elizabeth Simpson ran away from home at age eighteen to seek fame as an actress in London and quickly married Joseph Inchbald, an actor twice her age. They toured the stage together until his sudden death in 1779. She made her London stage debut a year later, and her writing debut came in 1784 with the play The Mogul Tale; Or, The Descent of the Balloon. Over the next two decades she wrote or adapted twenty-one plays: comedies, farces, and works from French and German, including the version of Kotzebue's Lovers' Vows, later used in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. Inchbald's acclaimed first novel, A Simple Story, prefigured the work of later women writers such as Austen. Using material from Inchbald's own pocket books detailing her daily life (she destroyed most of her letters and journals late in her life at the advice of her Catholic confessor) as well as a wealth of other sources, Annibel Jenkins tells for the first time not only the full story of Mrs. Inchbald's life but also provides a fascinating look at the society and politics, both public and private, of London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

A Simple Story

A Simple Story
Author: Mrs. Inchbald
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732691381
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Reproduction of the original: A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald

The World of Elizabeth Inchbald

The World of Elizabeth Inchbald
Author: Daniel J. Ennis
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2022-06-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1644532565
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This collection includes essays on the literary, theatrical and cultural conditions in Britain during the long eighteenth century, centered on the life, work, and world of the writer/actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821).

Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Inchbald (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Inchbald (Illustrated)
Author: Elizabeth Inchbald
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 2657
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 180170001X
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A colourful figure of the late eighteenth century, Elizabeth Inchbald ran away as a teenager to become an actress on the London stage. In spite of numerous obstacles and dangers in her path, she persevered in her profession, establishing an exemplary professional reputation. She enjoyed great success as a playwright, producing original farces and hilarious comedies. She also wrote two successful prose romances, A ‘Simple Story’ (1791) and ‘Nature and Art’ (1796), which serve as early examples of the novel of passion, having an impact on the development of the novel in English literature. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Inchbald’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, many rare plays, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Inchbald’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All the novels, with individual contents tables * Includes the two apocryphal novels ‘Appearance is against Them’ and ‘Emily Herbert’, originally ascribed to Inchbald, though now generally believed to be by another author * Features many plays appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Excellent formatting of the play texts * Rare non-fiction essays on the works of other playwrights * Includes a bonus biography– discover Inchbald’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Appearance is against Them (1786) Emily Herbert (1786) A Simple Story (1791) Nature and Art (1796) The Plays The Mogul Tale (1784) I’ll Tell You What (1785) Appearance is Against Them (1785) The Widow’s Vow (1786) The Midnight Hour (1787) Such Things Are (1787) Animal Magnetism (1788) The Child of Nature (1788) The Married Man (1789) Next Door Neighbours (1791) Everyone Has His Fault (1793) To Marry, or Not to Marry (1793) The Wedding Day (1794) Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are (1797) Lovers’ Vows (1798) The Wise Man of the East (1799) The Massacre (1833) A Case of Conscience (1833) The Non-Fiction Remarks on Plays The Biography Elizabeth Inchbald by John Joseph Knight Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821

Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821
Author: Paul Baines
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2000
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 9780192833167
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During the period of European revolutions the British Romantic theatre found itself reexaming the whole cast of social and sexual relations. The five plays grouped here represent some of the most radical and unusual examples of Romantic drama: Horace Walpole invented gothic melodrama with hisincest tragedy, The Mysterious Mother (1768), and Robert Southey imagined the theatre as a site of revolutionary protest in Wat Tyler (1794). Joanna Baillie's psychological case study in aristocratic hatred, De Monfort (1768) was thought too alarming to have been written by a woman, while ElizabethInchbald's hugely successful Lovers' Vows (1798) was sufficiently subversive for Jane Austen to analyse some of its illicit potential in Mansfield Park (1814). Byron's strenuous tragedy The Two Foscari (1821) explores an inescapable conflict between parental love and political authority. The stageimagined by these writers is an arena of tense and embattled desires, with sexual and political claims mapped onto the same conflicts of power. This exciting edition is the only one of its kind and provides the first authorized texts of the plays complete with fully-researched reference to majorauthorial revision.

Jane Austen and the Theatre

Jane Austen and the Theatre
Author: Penny Gay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2006-03-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521024846
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Jane Austen was fascinated by theatre from her childhood. As an adult she went to the theatre whenever opportunity arose. Scenes in her novels often resemble plays, and recent film and television versions have shown how naturally dramatic her stories are. Yet the myth remains that she was 'anti-theatrical', and readers continue to puzzle about the real significance of the theatricals in Mansfield Park. Penny Gay's book describes for the first time the rich theatrical context of Austen's writing, and the intersections between her novels and contemporary drama. Gay proposes a 'dialogue' in Austen's mature novels with the various genres of eighteenth-century drama - laughing comedy, sentimental comedy and tragedy, Gothic theatre, early melodrama. She re reads the novels in the light of this dialogue to demonstrate Austen's analysis of the pervasive theatricality of the society in which her heroines must perform.