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Author : Tracy C. Davis,Ellen Donkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521659825
This collection of essays recovers the names and careers of nineteenth-century women playwrights.
Author : K. Newey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230554900
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
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781315405124
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 : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521659574
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 : Adrienne Scullion
Publisher : Everyman
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0460877291
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 : Catherine Burroughs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521662249
First published in 2000, this collection of essays focuses on women theatre artists in the romantic period.
Author : Elaine Aston,Janelle Reinelt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521595339
This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth century.
Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781770487758
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,Michael E. Sinatra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351025126
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 : Ellen Donkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134890859
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 : Lucy Hartley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137584656
This volume charts the rise of professional women writers across diverse fields of intellectual enquiry and through different modes of writing in the period immediately before and during the reign of Queen Victoria. It demonstrates how, between 1830 and 1880, the woman writer became an agent of cultural formation and contestation, appealing to and enabling the growth of female readership while issuing a challenge to the authority of male writers and critics. Of especial importance were changing definitions of marriage, family and nation, of class, and of morality as well as new conceptions of sexuality and gender, and of sympathy and sensation. The result is a richly textured account of a radical and complex process of feminization whereby formal innovations in the different modes of writing by women became central to the aesthetic, social, and political formation of British culture and society in the nineteenth century.
Author : Ann R Hawkins
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1263 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000743753
This multi-volume reset collection will addresses significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
Author : Jeffrey N. Cox,Michael Gamer
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781551112985
The London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost exclusively on “closet dramas” rarely performed on stage, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama instead provides a broad sampling of works representative of the full range of the drama of the period. It includes the dramatic work of canonical Romantic poets (Samuel Coleridge’s Remorse, Percy Shelley’s The Cenci, and Lord Byron’s Sardanapalus) and important plays by women dramatists (Hannah Cowley’s A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Elizabeth Inchbald’s Every One Has His Fault, and Joanna Baillie’s Orra). It also provides a selection of popular theatrical genres—from melodrama and pantomime to hippodrama and parody—most popular in the period, featuring plays by George Colman the Younger, Thomas John Dibdin, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. In short, this is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive anthology of Romantic drama ever published. The introduction by the editors provides an informative overview of the drama and stage practices of the Romantic Period. The anthology also provides copious supplementary materials, including an Appendix of reviews and contemporary essays on the theater, a Glossary of Actors and Actresses, and a guide to further reading. Each of the ten plays has been fully edited and annotated.
Author : Sarah Burdett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031154744
This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a period in which she comes to stand in Britain as a striking symbol of revolutionary chaos. The book makes a case for viewing the British Romantic theatre as an arena in which the significance of the armed woman is constantly remodelled and reappropriated to fulfil diverse ideological functions. Used to challenge as well as to enforce established notions of sex and gender difference, she is fashioned also as an allegorical tool, serving both to condemn and to champion political and social rebellion at home and abroad. Magnifying heroines who appear on stage wielding pistols, brandishing daggers, thrusting swords, and even firing explosives, the study spotlights the intricate and often surprising ways in which the stage amazon interacts with Anglo-French, Anglo-Irish, Anglo-German, and Anglo-Spanish debates at varying moments across the French revolutionary and Napoleonic campaigns. At the same time, it foregrounds the extent to which new dramatic genres imported from Europe –notably, the German Sturm und Drang and the French-derived melodrama– facilitate possibilities at the turn of the nineteenth century for a refashioned female warrior, whose degree of agency, destructiveness, and heroism surpasses that of her tragic and sentimental predecessors.
Author : Ann R Hawkins,Stephanie Eckroth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000748482
This multi-volume reset collection will addresses significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.