Title Women's playwriting and the women's movement, 1890-1918 / Anna Farkas

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies Contents The female playwright in the 1890s -- The new woman on the stage -- Ingénues, wives, and mothers : women's drama in the West End -- The orthodox roots of suffrage theatre -- A new heroine for a new century : women's drama and the modernist theatre Summary "The influence of the women's movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women's drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage campaign in the years before the First World War. Women's Playwriting and the Women's Movement, 1890-1918 is the first designated study of British women's drama from a period of exceptional productivity and innovation for female playwrights. Both the British theatre and women's position within British society underwent fundamental changes in this period, and this book shows how female dramatists carefully negotiated their position in the heated debates about women's rights that occurred at this time, while staking out a place for themselves in an evolving theatrical landscape. Farkas also identifies the women's movement as a key influence on the development of female-authored drama between 1890 and 1918, but argues that scholarly prioritizing of the "radicalism" of work associated with the New Woman and the suffrage campaign has had a distorting effect in the past. Ideal for scholars of British and Victorian theatre, Women's Playwriting and the Women's Movement, 1890-1918 offer a new perspective which emphasizes the complexity of women playwrights' engagement with first-wave feminism and links it to the diversification of the British theatre in this period"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject English drama -- Women authors -- 19th century English drama -- Women authors -- 20th century Feminism and theater -- Great Britain -- 19th century Feminism and theater -- Great Britain -- 20th century Women dramatists -- Great Britain -- 19th century Women dramatists -- Great Britain -- 20th century Dramatists, English -- 19th century Dramatists, English -- 20th century PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- Playwriting. DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Dramatists, English English drama -- Women authors Feminism and theater Women dramatists Great Britain Form Electronic book LC no. 2019001575 ISBN 9781315405148 1315405148 9781315405131 131540513X 9781315405117 1315405113 1315405121 9781315405124

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