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Author: Tracy C. Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-05-27
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521659826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays recovers the names and careers of nineteenth-century women playwrights.
Author: K. Newey
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0230554903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain is the first book to make a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theatre from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how women playwrights negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the female tradition of playwriting which dramatises 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, which will be a useful reference tool for students and scholars in nineteenth-century studies and theatre historians.
Author: Anna Farkas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-13
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1315405121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The influence of the women’s movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women’s drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage campaign in the years before the First World War. 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. Both the British theatre and women’s position within British society underwent fundamental changes in this period, and this book shows how female dramatists carefully negotiated their position in the heated debates about women’s rights that occurred at this time, while staking out a place for themselves in an evolving theatrical landscape. Farkas also identifies the women’s movement as a key influence on the development of female-authored drama between 1890 and 1918, but argues that scholarly prioritizing of the "radicalism" of work associated with the New Woman and the suffrage campaign has had a distorting effect in the past. Ideal for scholars of British and Victorian theatre, Women’s Playwriting and the Women’s Movement, 1890–1918 offers a new perspective which emphasizes the complexity of women playwrights’ engagement with first-wave feminism and links it to the diversification of the British theatre in this period.
Author: Adrienne Scullion
Publisher: Everyman
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780460877299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Romantic verse drama to historical tragrdy, this collection of plays is a necessary contribution to a full understanding of the nineteenth-century theatrical and the development of modern theatre, including works by Joanna Baille and Mrs Henry Wood.
Author: Ellen Donkin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-03
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1134890850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Getting Into the Act is a vigorous and refreshing account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional success in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Ellen Donkin relates fascinating, disturbing tales about the male theatre managers to whom they were indebted, and the trials and prejudices they endured, ranging from accusations of plagiarism to sexual harassment. This scarred turbulent early history still resonates in the late twentieth-century. The current ratio of female to male playwrights is virtually unchanged. Old patterns of male control persist, and playwriting continues to be a hazardous occupation for women. But within these scarred earlier histories there are equally powerful narratives of self-revelation, endurance, and professional triumph that may point to a new way forward. Getting Into the Act is entertaining and informative reading for anyone, from scholar to general reader, who is interested in the history and gender politics of the stage.
Author: Catherine Burroughs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-11-16
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780521662246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2000, this collection of essays focuses on women theatre artists in the romantic period.
Author: Tracy C. Davis
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2011-12-20
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1770487751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection provides a representative set of theatrical performances popular on the nineteenth-century British stage. All are newly edited critical editions that account for variant sources reflecting the process of rehearsal, licensing, and production. Detailed introductions and extensive notes explain the texts’ relationship to repertoires, the circulating discourses of intelligibility that constantly recombine in performance. The plays address the topical concerns of slavery, imperial conquest, capitalism, interculturalism, uprisings at home and abroad, modernist aesthetic innovation, and the celebration of collective identities. Adaptations from novels, travelogues, and other plays are discussed along with the theatrical history that sustained these works on the stage.
Author: Thomas C. Crochunis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-10
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 1351025120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843 brings together ten eclectic plays by female dramatists and writers, to stimulate a rich discussion of women, writing, and theatre history. Ranging through tragedy, comedy, musical theatre and mixed-genre texts, this volume celebrates the breadth and experimental spirit of women's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dramatic writing. Each play is accompanied by an introductory essay that addresses its sociopolitical and theatrical contexts, and outlines its performance and reception history. The selections included here invite teachers and their students to study particular works by authors of note, but also to consider the differences between works written for page and stage. While many of the plays are recognizable as published dramas, they have been placed alongside textual artifacts that suggest plays or theatrical events of which no definitive record exists, as well as supplementary materials that invite teachers to engage their students in exploring women's dramatic writing in this era. Organized in chronological order, The Routledge Anthology of British Women Playwrights, 1777-1843 traces a history of women's writing across genres and styles, offering an invaluable resource to students and teachers alike.
Author: Joanne Shattock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-08-30
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780521659574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women's writing across a spectrum of genres. The book's focus is on women's role in and access to literary culture in the broadest sense, as consumers and interpreters as well as practitioners of that culture. Individual chapters consider women as journalists, editors, translators, scholars, actresses, playwrights, autobiographers, biographers, writers for children and religious writers as well as novelists and poets. A unique chronology offers a woman-centered perspective on literary and historical events and there is a guide to further reading.
Author: Elaine Aston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521595339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century.
