Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain

by K. Newey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403943323
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	269
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

KATHERINE NEWEY is Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts in the Department of Drama at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Framing the Victorian Woman Playwright Rescuing the Stage Legitimacy Money Art Home and Nation Conclusion: The Playwright as a Woman of Letters Appendix: Nineteenth-Century British Women Playwrights: A Checklist Notes Index