Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-40638-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christian, Mary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.