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Author Christian, Mary E.

Title Marriage and late Victorian dramatists / Mary Christian
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 202 pages)
Series Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries
Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.
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
Marriage -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Drama
Theater -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Performing arts -- Great Britain -- 19th century
Marriage in literature.
English drama
Marriage
Marriage in literature
Performing arts
Theater
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Drama
Drama.
Théâtre.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030406394
3030406393