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Article: "'Don't put your daughter on the stage, lady b': talking about theatre in jane austen's mansfield park". (Miscellany).(Critical Essay)
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- Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Judith W. Fisher, a professional actress and Associate Professor of Drama at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where she teaches acting, directing, and theatre history, has written extensively on theatre and drama. She is currently writing a book on the working lives of eighteenth-century actresses.
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IN MANSFIELD PARK, JANE AUSTEN LEAVES US in no doubt that Maria Bertram, the elder daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, is placed at risk because of the private theatricals undertaken by the young people at Mansfield in the absence of her father. But the extent to which Maria is in moral danger is more ambiguous, a point which has produced ...