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Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030406387, 9783030406394
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-40639-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2853943 bytes)
Series
Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
XII, 203\211
Time added
2020-08-30 06:11:09

Description

​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.

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