Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists - Mary Christian

Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

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Buch | Softcover
XII, 203 Seiten
2021 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-40641-7 (ISBN)
85,59 inkl. MwSt
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. 
This book is written for scholars specializing in the areas of Victorian studies, dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies, and gender studies.

lt;p>Mary Christian is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University, USA, where she teaches world literature and modern drama. She has contributed articles to Religion and Literature, Theatre Survey, Humanities, and SHAW: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies. She also serves as Membership Secretary for the International Shaw Society. 

1. Marriage, Theater, and Theatrical Marriage.- 2. Doll and Director: Ibsen's Old and New Drama.- 3. Wilde's Personal Drama.- 4. Pinero's Old-Fashioned Playgoer.- 5. Henry Arthur Jones and the Business of Morality.- 6. Shaw's Marriage Sermons.- 7. A Woman's Play: Elizabeth Robins and Suffrage Drama


"Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists is an especially timely book. ... Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists is full of similar lively details. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to know more about metatheatre-or any lover of Shaw who just wants to sit down with a readable and well-researched book about an extraordinary period in the history of British drama." (Jean Reynolds, SHAW The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies, Vol. 41 (1), 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Zusatzinfo XII, 203 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 288 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Schlagworte domesticity • Ibsen • marriage • Metatheatre • Shaw • Society drama • Theatre of the 1890s • Victorian • Wilde
ISBN-10 3-030-40641-5 / 3030406415
ISBN-13 978-3-030-40641-7 / 9783030406417
Zustand Neuware
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