Description: The publication of these popular 18th and 19th century plays by Catherine Gore -- the first female writer of "gentlemanly melodrama" -- and her contemporaries is a cause for celebration for all enthusiasts of theatre. Lost to both a reading and theatrical audience for at least a hundred years, the plays collected in Sisters of Gore span the development of Gothic melodrama from the 1790s to the 1840s. John Franceschina examines the background of the theatre which nurtured the genre and offers insight into how melodrama should be both analyzed and performed. From Jane Scott's popular The Old Oak Chest and Elizabeth Polack's St. Clair of the Isles to Gore's Dacre of the South, readers will relish the variety of works in this important collection as significant examples of 19th century popular culture, as hidden documents in the history of women, and as compelling, fascinating theatre.

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