On Dramatic Literacy.

This issue of I Theatre Survey i casts a sustained gaze at Anglophone performance cultures of the nineteenth century. Inchbald's writings serve as a valuable archive of both the author's consolidating aesthetic philosophy and the tastes predominant among theatregoers and producers of the time. England's famous Kemble acting family makes a brief appearance in Lisa Freeman's essay, but one of its daughters is the primary subject of Chandra Owenby Hopkins's essay: the plantation diaries of Fanny Kemble shed light on the ways of Southern American whiteness from the perspective of a racial insider who is a national outsider.

LITERACY; COLONIES; HISTORIOGRAPHY; DRAMATIC criticism

Theatre Survey, 2021, Vol 62, Issue 2, p135

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