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.
| ISBN: | 9781403943323 |
| Publication date: | 1st December 2005 |
| Author: | Katherine Newey |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 269 pages |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Gender studies, gender groups History of Performing Arts Literature: history and criticism Biography, Literature and Literary studies |
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.
Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain features in the following genres: Theatre studies, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Gender studies, gender groups, History of Performing Arts, Literature: history and criticism, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain is available in Hardback
Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain was written by Katherine Newey and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK
Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain has 269 pages
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