Margarete Rubik

Early Women Dramatists 1550-1801 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive survey of women's drama between the Renaissance and the end of the eighteenth century, assessing the plays' characteristic features and the ruptures in the text indicating the writers' precarious social and artistic position and ambiguous stances to their own creativity and sex. Chapters are devoted to individual writers as well as to general developments in specific periods. The most significant plays are analysed in detail and related to the male literary canon of the time in order to stress both their originality and the existence of an, albeit tentative, female literary tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349262755
• Artikelnr.: 54788339

Autorenporträt

MARGARETE RUBIK is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Note
Introduction I: Women Inside and Outside the Theatre in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries
Women Dramatists of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
Introduction II: Women Inside and Outside the Theatre in the Restoration
Period; Aphra Behn
Women Writers at the Turn of the Century; Susanna Centlivre
Introduction III: Women Inside and Outside the Theatre in the Eighteenth
Century
Women Dramatists of the Late Eighteenth Century; Hannah Cowley & Elizabeth
Inchbald
Contemporary and Modern Perfomances of the Plays
Towards a Female Tradition in Theatre
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index.