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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 Victorian women were exhilarated by the authoritative voice and the professional opportunity the theatre offered them. In this book Kerry Powell chronicles the development of women's participation in the theatre as playwrights

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Author

Powell, Kerry, Kerry Powell

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511582127

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, History, Sports