Early Women Dramatists 1550-1801

ISBN-13: 9780333630266 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 240 str.

Margarete Rubik

Opis

A comprehensive survey of women's drama between the Renaissance and the end of the eighteenth century, assessing the plays' characteristic features and the ruptures in the text indicating the writers' precarious social and artistic position and ambiguous stances to their own creativity and sex. Chapters are devoted to individual writers as well as to general developments in specific periods. The most significant plays are analysed in detail and related to the male literary canon of the time in order to stress both their originality and the existence of an, albeit tentative, female literary tradition.

Spis treści

Author's Note.-  Introduction I: Women Inside and Outside the Theatre in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries .- Women Dramatists of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries.- Introduction II: Women Inside and Outside the Theatre in the Restoration Period; Aphra Behn.- Women Writers at the Turn of the Century; Susanna Centlivre.- Introduction III: Women Inside and Outside the Theatre in the Eighteenth Century.- Women Dramatists of the Late Eighteenth Century; Hannah Cowley & Elizabeth Inchbald.- Contemporary and Modern Perfomances of the Plays.- Towards a Female Tradition in Theatre.- Selected Bibliography.- Notes.- Index.

O autorze

MARGARETE RUBIK is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Vienna, having studied English and History in Vienna and American Studies at the University of Southern California. She has published extensively on women's drama and the Victorian novel.