The Joanna Baillie Project

Joanna Baillie's second volume of Plays on the Passions picks up where the first left off, with the subject of hatred. But where De Mont...

It took a while, but eventually the publication of Plays on the Passions became an enormous success, going through five printings in six yea...

Joanna Baillie concludes her first volume of "Plays on the Passions" with "De Montfort", the clearest and most focus...

Joanna Baillie followed "Basil", her tragedy of romantic passion, with "The Tryal", a comic exploration of the same subj...

"Basil" was the first of Joanna Baillie's plays that I read, and the first blazing sign to me that the classic repertoire migh...

As I mentioned in my previous post, this blog is dedicated to systematically exploring each play of the criminally overlooked Romantic Era d...

In "A Room of Her Own", Virginia Woolf posited the tragic fate of a woman born in Shakespeare's time with Shakespeare's ge...