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Author Powell, Kerry.

Title Women and Victorian Theatre
Published Cambridge, GBR : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (218 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; List of illustrations ; Preface ; PART ONE: THE MAKING OF THE VICTORIAN ACTRESS ; 1 ""Think of the power-"" ; 2 Masculine panic and the panthers of the stage ; Married to the stage; Myriad lives: transformations of self and sexuality; Mad girls, feeble bodies; Tgers in the dairy: the actress domesticated
3 Actresses, managers, and feminized theatre PART TWO: GENDER AND VICTORIAN PLAYWRITING ; 4 The impossibility of women playwrights ; 5 Textual assaults: women's novels on stage ; 6 Victorian plays by women ; PART THREE: REVOLUTION
7 Elizabeth Robins, Oscar Wilde, and the ""Theatre of the Future"" Notes ; Index
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 0511582129
9780511582127