Staging The Mysterious Mother 8th Edition by Cynthia E Roman, Jill Campbell, Jonathan Kramnick ISBN 0300263651‎ 978-0300263657

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ISBN 10: 0300263651‎ 

ISBN 13: 978-0300263657

Author: Cynthia E. Roman, Jill Campbell, Jonathan Kramnick 

 Horace Walpole’s five-act tragedy The Mysterious Mother (1768), a sensational tale of incest and intrigue, was initially circulated only among the author’s friends. Walpole never permitted it to be performed during his lifetime except as a private theatrical. He described his play as a “delicious entertainment for the closet” and claimed that he “did not think it would do for the stage.” Yet the essays in this volume trace a history of private readings, amateur theatricals, and even early public performances, demonstrating that the play was read and performed more than Walpole’s protests suggest. Exploring a wide variety of topics—including the play’s crypto-Catholicism, its treatments of incest, guilt, motherhood, orphans, and scientific spectacle, and the complex relations between print and performance—the essays demonstrate the rich relevance of The Mysterious Mother to current critical discussions.
The volume includes the proceedings of a mini-conference hosted at Yale University in 2018 on the occasion of a staged reading of the play. Also included are the director’s reflections, an abridged script, a facsimile of Walpole’s own copy of the full-length play, and reproductions of the illustrations he commissioned from Lady Diana Beauclerk.

Table of contents: 

1. Part I: Reading The Mysterious Mother
   1.1 The Mystery of The Mysterious Mother: Textual Lives and Afterlives
   1.2 The Mysterious Orphan: Dramatizing the Betrayal of the Child
   1.3 Misreading The Mysterious Mother: Motherhood and Religious Feeling
   1.4 “Some demon rides in th’ air”: Lightning and the Problem of the Supernatural in Walpole’s Second Gothic
   1.5 Horace Walpole’s Crypto-Catholicism, the Gothic, and The Mysterious Mother
   1.6 Defiance of Authority and the Visionary Power of Negation in The Mysterious Mother

2. Part II: Staging The Mysterious Mother
   2.1 Wilful Walpole: Performing Publication and The Mysterious Mother
   2.2 Family Dramas: The Mysterious Mother and the Eighteenth-Century Incest Play
   2.3 “The beautiful negligence of a gentleman”: Horace Walpole and Amateur Theatricals
   2.4 “I beg you would keep it under lock and key”: The Mystery of the 1821 Mysterious Mother Performances

3. Part III: The Yale Performance
   3.1 Abridged Version of The Mysterious Mother
   3.2 Abridging Horace Walpole’s The Mysterious Mother
   3.3 Staging The Mysterious Mother

4. Part IV: “This copy is to be kept in the Beauclerc-closet to explain Lady Di Beauclerc’s Drawings. H.W.”
   4.1 Facsimile of Horace Walpole’s Copy of the 1768 Strawberry Hill Edition
   4.2 The Beauclerk Closet Drawings: Seven Illustrations of The Mysterious Mother

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