num_pages: 312
description: 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, what she does, and why it matters. Gender inquiry is the start: destabilizing the category of playwrights loosens the borders of theater history making it possible to reconceptualize theater and drama not as a product of culture but as social processes dynamically interacting with culture.
language: English
title: Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain
titlecomplete: Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Cambridge University Press