Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain |
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Editor:
| Davis, Tracy C. Donkin, Ellen |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-65982-6 |
Publication Date: | May 1999 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $34.99 |
Book Description:
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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, and what she does, and why it matters. Gender inquiry is the start: destabilising the category of playwrights loosens the borders of theatre history making it possible to reconceptualize theatre and drama not as a product of culture but as social processes dynamically...
More DescriptionThis 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, and what she does, and why it matters. Gender inquiry is the start: destabilising the category of playwrights loosens the borders of theatre history making it possible to reconceptualize theatre and drama not as a product of culture but as social processes dynamically interacting with culture.