Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Paperback

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, what she does, and why it matters. Gender inquiry is the start: destabilizing the category of playwrights loosens the borders of theater history making it possible to reconceptualize theater and drama not as a product of culture but as social processes dynamically interacting with culture.

• | Author: Tracy C. Davis
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: May 27, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0521659825
• | ISBN-13: 9780521659826