Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By Tracy C. David

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521659825
• ISBN13: 9780521659826
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"