Emma Gad (1852-1921) was a prolific Danish playwright at the turn
of the twentieth century. With sparkling prose and witty dialogue,
Gad's ambitious and sophisticated theatrical productions raised
important and still pressing questions about sexuality and
morality-including the status of women in marriage, divorce,
same-sex desire, and marital infidelity. Through her plays she
engaged with contemporaries like Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, and
George Bernard Shaw, yet she is primarily remembered for her
etiquette book, Takt og Tone. Laughter and Civility, the first
biographical and scholarly volume to examine and contextualize her
dramas, deeply explores how and why influential women are so often
excluded from the canon. Lynn R. Wilkinson provides insightful
readings into all twenty-five of Gad's plays and demonstrates how
writers and intellectuals of the time, including Georg and Edvard
Brandes, took her critically acclaimed work seriously. This volume
rightfully reinstates Emma Gad's work into the repertory of
European drama and is crucial for scholars interested in
turn-of-the-century Scandinavian drama, literature, culture, and
politics.
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