Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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- Editors:
- Tracy C. Davis, Northwestern University, Illinois
- Ellen Donkin, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts
- Date Published: June 1999
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521659826
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This collection of essays, written by a team of leading scholars in the field, undertakes not simply to recover the names and careers of women playwrights but to call into question the whole idea of what a playwright is, what she does, and why it matters. Gender inquiry is the start: destabilizing the category of playwrights loosens the borders of theater history making it possible to reconceptualize theater and drama not as a product of culture but as social processes dynamically interacting with culture.
Read more- First critical work on playwriting by women that looks comprehensively at the nineteenth century in Britain
- Suitable for teaching in nineteenth-century studies, links theatre with literature, women across writing genres
- Includes vital names and information to assist teachers in structuring courses and students in researching topics
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"...an exciting contribution to the study of nineteenth-century women theatre-makers.[...] This volume adds further depth and lustre to a field of study already energized by distinguished work by Davis, Donkin, Bratton and many of their contributors." New Theatre Quarterly
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- Date Published: June 1999
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521659826
- length: 312 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- contains: 11 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin
Part I. In Judgment:
1. The sociable playwright and representative citizen Tracy C. Davis
2. 'To be public as a genius and private as a woman': the critical framing of nineteenth-century British women playwrights Gay Gibson Cima
3. Mrs Gore gives tit-for-tat Ellen Donkin
Part II. Wrighting the Play:
4. Jane Scott the writer/manager Jacky Bratton
5. Illusions of authorship Jane Moody
6. Sara Lane: questions of authorship Jim Davis
Part III. Staging the State: Joanna Baillie's 'Constantine Paleologus' Beth H. Freidman-Romell
8. 'The Lady Playwrights' and 'The Wild Tribes of the East': female dramatists in the East End theatres, 1860–80 Heidi J. Holder
9. 'From a female pen': the proper lady as playwright in the West End theatre, 1823–44 Katherine Newey
Part IV. Genre Trouble:
10. Genre trouble: Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Polack - tragic subjects, melodramatic subjects Susan Bennett
11. Sappho in the closet Denise A. Walen
12. Conflicted politics and circumspect comedy: women's comic playwriting in the 1890s Susan Carlson
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