Women's Playwriting and the Women's Movement, 1890-1918

ISBN-13: 9781032178035 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 144 str.

Anna Farkas

Opis

Women’s Playwriting and the Women’s Movement, 1890-1918 is the first designated study of British women’s drama from a period of exceptional productivity and innovation for female playwrights.

 

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Female Playwright in the 1890s














2. The New Woman on the Stage














3. Ingénues, Wives, and Mothers: Women’s Drama in the West End











4. The Orthodox Roots of Suffrage Theatre














5. A New Heroine for a New Century: Women’s Drama and the Modernist Theatre

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Anna Farkas is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Regensburg University, Germany. She is co-editor of Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging in Nineteenth-Century Culture (2013). Her research interests are in British drama of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women’s writing, and law and literature.