Ellen Donkin

Getting Into the Act (eBook, PDF)

Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A refreshing and vigorous account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional sucess in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134890866
• Artikelnr.: 38449335

Autorenporträt

Ellen Donkin teaches theatre at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is the co-editor with Susan Clement of Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater as if Gender and Race Matter and has written widely on issues of gender in theatre history and practice.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter One: Getting
Into the Act Chapter Two: Frances Brooke: The Female Playwright as Critic
Chapter Three: The Paper War of Hannah Cowley and Hannah More Chapter Four:
Sophia Lee: Documenting the Post-Garrick Era Chapter Five: Advantage, Mrs
Inchbald Chapter Six: Frnaces Burney and the Protection Racket Chapter
Seven: Joanna Baillie vs. the Termites Bellicosus Chapter Eight: Afterpiece
Notes Bibliography Index