Revolution and Romanticism

AUGUST VON KOTZEBUE
adapted by Elizabeth Inchbald

Lovers' Vows 1798

Jane Austen's choice of Lovers' Vows as the play to be performed in Mansfield Park was a recognition of its genuinely subversive nature. Socially as well as politically it undermines the accepted standards of the day, as Amelia (played appropriately by Mary Crawford) marries her low-born tutor, making her own advances and ignoring parental authority. It is one of the most outspokenly feminist works of the Romantic period.

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‘My good friends, ‘ [says Mary Crawford] ‘you are most composedly at work upon these cottages and ale-houses, inside and out - but pray let me know my fate in the meanwhile. Who is to be Anhalt? What gentleman among you am I to have the pleasure of making love to?’
(Mansfield Park, ch. 15)

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