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Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

Author : Mary Christian
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030406393
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists written by Mary Christian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Bernard Shaw

Author : Audrey McNamara
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031325893
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Audrey McNamara and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaw emerged as a playwright in the politically charged environment of 1892, for both female suffrage and Irish independence. His plays quickly advocated for societal changes with regard to women’s roles, while expanding this advocacy into considerations of Ireland. Shaw’s engagement with marriage and union as a personal contract with nationhood have never before been considered as a methodology with which to view his work. This book demonstrates that Shaw was deeply engaged with and committed to the Irish question and to social and gender issues.

Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion

Author : Jean Reynolds
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030960714
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion written by Jean Reynolds and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that the stories of the two “Shavian sisters”— Barbara Undershaft and Eliza Doolittle—are deeply concerned with performance and what Jacques Derrida calls “the problem of language.” Nearly every character in Major Barbara produces, directs, or acts in at least one miniature play. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins is Eliza’s acting coach and phonetics teacher, as well as the star of an impromptu, open-air phonetics show. The language content in these two plays is just as intriguing. Did Eliza Doolittle have to learn Standard English to become a complete human being? Should we worry about the bad grammar we hear at Barbara Undershaft’s Salvation Army shelter? Is English losing its precision and purity? Meanwhile, in the background, Shaw keeps reminding us that language and theatre are always present in our everyday lives—sometimes serving as stabilizing forces, and sometimes working to undo them.

Public Faces, Secret Lives

Author : Wendy L. Rouse
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479830941
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Public Faces, Secret Lives written by Wendy L. Rouse and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention for the 2023 Francis Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize 2023 Judy Grahn Award-Publishing Triangle Finalist Restores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women’s right to vote The women’s suffrage movement, much like many other civil rights movements, has an important and often unrecognized queer history. In Public Faces, Secret Lives Wendy L. Rouse reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the suffrage movement included a variety of individuals who represented a range of genders and sexualities. However, owing to the constant pressure to present a “respectable” public image, suffrage leaders publicly conformed to gendered views of ideal womanhood in order to make women’s suffrage more palatable to the public. Rouse argues that queer suffragists did take meaningful action to assert their identities and legacies by challenging traditional concepts of domesticity, family, space, and death in both subtly subversive and radically transformative ways. Queer suffragists also built lasting alliances and developed innovative strategies in order to protect their most intimate relationships, ones that were ultimately crucial to the success of the suffrage movement. Public Faces, Secret Lives is the first work to truly recenter queer figures in the women’s suffrage movement, highlighting their immense contributions as well as their numerous sacrifices.

Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly

Author : Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030742741
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, and the Dead James Connolly written by Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the Irish socialistic tracks pursued by Bernard Shaw and Sean O’Casey, mostly after 1916, that were arguably impacted by the executed James Connolly. The historical context is carefully unearthed, stretching from its 1894 roots via W. B. Yeats’ dream of Shaw as a menacing, yet grinning sewing machine, to Shaw’s and O’Casey’s 1928 masterworks. In the process, Shaw’s War Issues for Irishmen, Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, The Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman, Saint Joan, The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism, and O’Casey’s The Story of the Irish Citizen Army, The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, and The Silver Tassie are reconsidered, revealing previously undiscovered textures to the masterworks. All of which provides a rethinking, a reconsideration of Ireland’s great drama of the 1920s, as well as furthering the knowledge of Shaw, O’Casey, and Connolly.

Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age

Author : Melveena McKendrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521202949
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Woman and Society in the Spanish Drama of the Golden Age written by Melveena McKendrick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-07-04 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An identification and analysis of Spanish Golden-Age drama's preoccupation with the woman who will not accept marriage as her natural role.

Boston Marriage

Author : David Mamet
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0375706658
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Boston Marriage written by David Mamet and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room. Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who live together on the fringes of society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a young girl and wants to enlist the jealous Anna's help for an assignation. As the two women exchange barbs and taunt their hapless maid, Claire's inamorata arrives and sets off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the women's future at risk. Mamet brings his trademark tart dialogue and impeccable plotting, spiced with Wildean wit, to this wickedly funny comedy.

Late Victorian Plays, 1890-1914

Author : George Rowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Victorian Plays, 1890-1914 written by George Rowell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'On May 27, 1893,' wrote William Archer in a book published thirty years later, 'Arthur Pinero planted a milestone on the path of Progress in the shape of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray.' Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones, Wilde, evolved the Society drama, a vehicle for the actor-managers who ruled the commercial theatre, represented here not only by 'that Interesting Play' and Jones's high comedy The Liars but also by H. H. Davies's The Mollusc, which looks forward to the drawing-room

Victorian Literature and Culture

Author : Maureen Moran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441147934
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Literature and Culture written by Maureen Moran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to Victorian Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1837-1900, including: - the historical, cultural and intellectual background including politics and economics, popular culture, philosophy - major writers and genres including the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, Trollope, Thackeray, Conan Doyle, Ibsen, Shaw, Hopkins, Rossetti and Tennyson - concise explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism - key critical approaches - a chronology mapping historical events and literary works and further reading including websites and electronic resources.

Breach of Promise to Marry

Author : Denise Bates
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1783030364
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Breach of Promise to Marry written by Denise Bates and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marriage day was fixed, the wedding dresses were bought, the wedding tour was planned out, the wedding guests were invited. The day came but not the bridegroom...'??While Dickens' embittered spinster Miss Havisham stopped all her clocks on her wedding day and 'never since looked upon the light of day', the reality was much brighter for thousands of jilted women. The real Miss Havisham's didn't mope in faded wedding finery they hired lawyers and struck the first 'no-win, no fee' deals to sue for breach of promise. ??From the 1790s right up to the 1960s, jilted women (and sometimes rejected suitors) employed a range of tactics to bring false lovers to book. Denise Bates uncovers over 1,000 forgotten cases of women who found very different endings to their fictional counterparts: ??Mary Ann Smith forged evidence of a courtship to entrap an Earl. Catherine Kempsall shot the man who denied their engagement, Gladys Knowles was awarded a record £10,000 in damages by a jury in 1890, Daisy Mons discreetly negotiated a £50,000 settlement from a Lord ??Based on original research, this social history of breach of promise shows that when men behaved badly hell had no fury like a woman scorned!??As featured on Woman's Hour, in the Daily Express, Irish Mail on Sunday, Sheffield Star, Discover Your History Magazine, Eastern Daily Press, Portsmouth News, Norwich Evening News, Glossop Chronicle, Tameside Reporter and Hull Daily Mail

Plays by Henry Arthur Jones

Author : Henry Arthur Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521233699
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Plays by Henry Arthur Jones written by Henry Arthur Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1982-09-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Arthur Jones was among the most prominent British dramatists of his day. A contemporary of Pinero, Wilde and Shaw, he did his best to elevate drama to the level of literature whilst constructing plays that were also successful in the commercial theatre. Though some of his contemporaries considered him cynical and daring, he strove to confront major issues without offending accepted social and dramatic conventions. This volume contains three of Jones's ninety-odd plays, representing the best of his work in different styles: melodrama and society drama. The Silver King (1882), the story of a man, falsely accused of murder, was Jones's first great success. It is one of the best melodramas ever written, and won high praise from Matthew Arnold for its literary merit and convincing characterisation. Jones's interest in the 'New Woman' of the 1890s is expressed in the lively dialogue of The Case of Rebellious Susan (1894), whose heroine is advised to renounce her new lover and return to her faithless husband - scarely a radical conclusion, but sympathetically handled. The Liars (1897) is a fine comedy of manners which again considers the question of marriage and the role of women in society. Dr Jackson's full introduction places Jones in the context of late Victorian society and theatre and describes his other literary activities - the published letters and essays on drama - as well as discussing some of the plays not included here. The volume is illustrated by contemporary production prints.

Victorian Popular Dramatists

Author : Victor Emeljanow
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Popular Dramatists written by Victor Emeljanow and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre

Author : Kerry Powell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521795364
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre written by Kerry Powell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with an introduction surveying the theatre of the time, followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audience; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce, melodrama, and the economics of the theatre.

Modern Dramatists

Author : Kimball King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136521194
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Modern Dramatists written by Kimball King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection gathers critical essays on the major works of the foremost American and British playwrights of the 20th century, written by leading figures in drama/performance studies.

The Ethics of the Victorian as Reflected by Four Dramatists of the Victorian Era

Author : Evelyn Henriette Seedorf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of the Victorian as Reflected by Four Dramatists of the Victorian Era written by Evelyn Henriette Seedorf and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism

Author : T. Olverson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023024680X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Women Writers and the Dark Side of Late-Victorian Hellenism written by T. Olverson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the appropriation of transgressive, violent female figures from ancient Greek literature and myth by late Victorian writers, Olverson reveals the extent to which ancient antagonists like the murderous Medea and the sinister Circe were employed as a means to protest against and comment upon contemporary social and political institutions.

Victorian Songhunters

Author : E. David Gregory
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461674174
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Songhunters written by E. David Gregory and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Songhunters is a history of popular song collecting and ballad editing from 1820 to 1883. It is a comprehensive telling of the Victorian vernacular song revival leading up to the Eduardian folksong festival, and includes information on the folksong revival in Scotland.