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Women and Victorian Theatre (Hardcover, New)
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Women and Victorian Theatre (Hardcover, New)
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Victorian women were exhilarated by the authoritative voice and the
professional opportunity that, uniquely, the theatre offered them.
Victorian men, anxious to preserve their dominance in this as in
every other sphere of life, sought to limit the theatre as being
distinctively, irrevocably masculine. Actresses were represented as
inhuman monstrosities, not women at all. Furthermore, the executive
functions of theatre-manager and playwright were carefully defined
as requiring supposedly masculine qualities of mind and
personality. A woman playwright came to be seen as an
impossibility, although their number actually increased towards the
close of the nineteenth century. In this book, Kerry Powell
chronicles the development of women's participation in the theatre
as playwrights, actresses and managers and explores the making of
the Victorian actress, gender and playwriting of the period, and
the contributions these made to developments in the following
century.
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