Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century BritainTracy C. Davis, Ellen Donkin 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. |
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... Vestris as Don Giovanni . A toy theatre portrait published by J. Dyer . Reproduced by kind permission of the Governing Body , Christ Church , Oxford University . 5 Madame Céleste as the Wild Arab Boy . Lithograph by J. P. Hall , 1834 ...
... Vestris as Don Giovanni . A toy theatre portrait published by J. Dyer . Reproduced by kind permission of the Governing Body , Christ Church , Oxford University . 5 Madame Céleste as the Wild Arab Boy . Lithograph by J. P. Hall , 1834 ...
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... Vestris and Céleste as women who , by virtue of their highly distinctive performing styles , shaped their texts by a kind of ventriloquism . In other words , playwriting need not necessi- tate writing at all , but instead can be ...
... Vestris and Céleste as women who , by virtue of their highly distinctive performing styles , shaped their texts by a kind of ventriloquism . In other words , playwriting need not necessi- tate writing at all , but instead can be ...
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Contents
The sociable playwright and representative citizen | 15 |
To be public as a genius and private as a woman The critical framing of nineteenthcentury British women playwrights | 35 |
Mrs Gore gives tit for tat | 54 |
Wrighting the play | 75 |
Jane Scott the writermanager | 77 |
Illusions of authorship | 99 |
Sarah Lane questions of authorship | 125 |
Geographies of production | 149 |
From a female pen The proper lady as playwright in the West End theatre 18231844 | 193 |
Genre trouble | 213 |
Genre trouble Joanna Baillie Elizabeth Polack tragic subjects melodramatic subjects | 215 |
Sappho in the closet | 233 |
Conflicted politics and circumspect comedy Womens comic playwriting in the 1890s | 256 |
Plays cited in this volume | 277 |
Plays by women dramatists in East End theatres 1860s1880s | 282 |
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Staging the state Joanna Baillies Constantine Paleologus | 151 |
The lady playwrights and the wild tribes of the East Female dramatists in the East End theatres 18601880 | 174 |
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