“The theatre scholar’s daunting but irresistible quest to recover some echoes of performance of the past has never been more engagingly presented than in Pascoe’s account of tracing?the long-silenced
English actress Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) was an international celebrity widely acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines.We know what Siddons looked like—an endless number of artists asked he
In language both witty and idiosyncratic, Judith Pascoe makes the case that the romantic period stands out as a distinct moment in collecting history, a transition between the flourishing of the Rena
Mary Robinson's work has begun again to assume a central place in discussions of Romanticism. A writer of the 1790'sa??a decade which saw the birth of Romanticism, revolution, and enormous popular en
