Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain

ISBN-13: 9781403943323 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 280 str.

Katherine Newey

Opis

This is a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theater from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how they negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the female tradition of playwriting which dramatizes the central experience of women's lives around the themes of home, the nation, and the position of women in marriage and the family. The book also includes an extensive Appendix of authors and plays.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction: Framing the Victorian Woman Playwright Rescuing the Stage Legitimacy Money Art Home and Nation Conclusion: The Playwright as a Woman of Letters Appendix: Nineteenth-Century British Women Playwrights: A Checklist Notes Index

O autorze

KATHERINE NEWEY is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts in the Department of Drama at the University of Birmingham, UK.