{"product_id":"women-and-playwriting-in-nineteenth-century-britain-hardback-9780521574136","title":"Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Hardback) 9780521574136","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWomen and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis collection of essays recovers the names and careers of nineteenth-century women playwrights.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTracy C. Davis (Edited by), Ellen Donkin (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521574136, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 May 1999\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 11 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.61 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This collection … fulfils its promises to the reader, not only by contributing a substantial body of knowledge and criticism on the topic of the title but by raising many general theoretical issues that future scholars will ignore at their peril.' Brett Ashley Crawford, Theatre Research International\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy does historical memory exclude nineteenth-century women playwrights when hundreds worked prolifically across the spectrum of professional theatre, amateur theatricals, and publishing? What might it mean to adjust the collective focus of cultural historians and literary critics so that these women can come into view? 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, and what she does, and why it matters. Gender inquiry is the start: destabilising the category of playwrights loosens the borders of theatre history, making it possible to reconceptualize theatre and drama not as a product of culture but as social processes dynamically interacting with culture.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Tracy C. Davis and Ellen Donkin\u003cbr\u003e Part I. In Judgment: 1. The sociable playwright and representative citizen Tracy C. Davis\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'To be public as a genius and private as a woman': the critical framing of nineteenth-century British women playwrights Gay Gibson Cima\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mrs Gore gives tit-for-tat Ellen Donkin\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Wrighting the Play: 4. Jane Scott the writer\/manager Jacky Bratton\u003cbr\u003e 5. Illusions of authorship Jane Moody\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sara Lane: questions of authorship Jim Davis\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Staging the State: Joanna Baillie's 'Constantine Paleologus' Beth H. Freidman-Romell\u003cbr\u003e 8. 'The Lady Playwrights' and 'The Wild Tribes of the East': female dramatists in the East End theatres, 1860–80 Heidi J. Holder\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'From a female pen': the proper lady as playwright in the West End theatre, 1823–44 Katherine Newey\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Genre Trouble: 10. Genre trouble: Joanna Baillie, Elizabeth Polack - tragic subjects, melodramatic subjects Susan Bennett\u003cbr\u003e 11. Sappho in the closet Denise A. Walen\u003cbr\u003e 12. Conflicted politics and circumspect comedy: women's comic playwriting in the 1890s Susan Carlson\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: plays \u0026amp; playwrights\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20plays%20\u0026amp;%20playwrights%20%5BDSG%5D%22\"\u003eDSG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46066005049624,"sku":"9780521574136","price":87.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521574136.gif?v=1691408740","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/women-and-playwriting-in-nineteenth-century-britain-hardback-9780521574136","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}