Women and Dramatic Production 1550 - 1700

by Stephanie Hodgson-Wright, Stephanie (University of Sunderland) Wright, Gweno Williams, et al.

There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period because of their exclusion from professional theatre. Women and Dramatic Production 1550-1700 challenges this view and breaks new ground in arguing that, far from writing in closeted retreat, a select number of women took an active part in directing and controlling dramatic self-representations.

Examining texts from the mid-sixteenth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 058231982X
• ISBN13: 9780582319820
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"