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The new woman and other emancipated woman plays / edited with an introduction and notes by Jean Chothia.
Van Pelt Library PR1259.S93 N48 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford English drama
- Oxford world's classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Suffrage--Great Britain--Drama.
- Women.
- Women--Suffrage.
- Great Britain.
- Women's rights--Great Britain--Drama.
- Women's rights.
- Suffragists--Great Britain--Drama.
- Suffragists.
- Feminism--Great Britain--Drama.
- Feminism.
- Women--Great Britain--Drama.
- English drama--20th century.
- English drama.
- English drama--19th century.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 303 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- Female emancipation and the much derided "New Woman" was a subject of immense fascination in the English Theater of the 1890s. This collection includes two plays from the period--Sidney Grundy's THE NEW WOMAN (1894) and Arthur Wing Pinero's THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH (1895). Also included are examples of the New Drama which emerged after the turn of the century.
- Contents:
- The new woman / Sidney Grundy
- The notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith / Arthur Wing Pinero
- Votes for women! / Elizabeth Robins
- The last of the De Mullins / St. John Hankin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0192824279
- OCLC:
- 37492749
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