Description |
1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) |
Series |
Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries |
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Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.
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Contents |
Introduction: marriage, theater, and theatrical marriage -- Doll and director: Ibsen's old and new drama -- Wilde's personal drama -- Pinero's old-fashioned playgoer -- Henry Arthur Jones and the business of morality -- Shaw's marriage sermons -- A woman's play: Elizabeth Robins and suffrage drama |
Summary |
This book examines plays produced in England in the 1890s and early 1900s and the ways in which these plays responded to changing perceptions of marriage. Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and other late-Victorian dramatists challenged romanticized ideals of love and domesticity, and in the process, these authors appropriated and rewrote the genre conventions that had dominated English drama for much of the nineteenth century. In their plays, theater became a forum for debating the problems of traditional marriage and envisioning alternative forms of partnership |
Notes |
Includes index |
Subject |
English drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Marriage -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Drama
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Theater -- Great Britain -- 19th century
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Performing arts -- Great Britain -- 19th century
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Marriage in literature.
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English drama
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Marriage
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Marriage in literature
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Performing arts
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Theater
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Drama
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Drama.
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Théâtre.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783030406394 |
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3030406393 |
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