Kerry Powell

Women and Victorian Theatre

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This important book chronicles the growing role of women playwrights, managers and actresses in the Victorian theatre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780521471671
• ISBN-10: 0521471672
• Artikelnr.: 29338999

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations: Preface
Part I. The Making of the Victorian Actress: 1. 'Think of the power-'
2. Masculine panic and the panthers of the stage
3. Actresses, managers and feminized theatre
Part II. Gender and Victorian Playwriting: 4. The impossibility of women playwrights
5. Textual assaults: women's novels on stage
6. Victorian plays by women
Part III. Revolution: 7. Elizabeth Robins, Oscar Wilde and the 'Theatre of the Future'
Notes
Index.