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Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain
Katherine Newey
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Description for Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain
Hardback. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 505.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403943323
SKU
V9781403943323
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Ref
99-15
About Katherine Newey
KATHERINE NEWEY is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts in the Department of Drama at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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