This is a comprehensive survey of women's drama between the Renaissance and the end of the 18th century, assessing the plays' characteristic features and the ruptures in the text that indicate the writers' precarious social and artistic position and the ambiguous stances to their own creativity and sex. Chapters are devoted to individual writers as well as to general developments in specific periods. The most significant plays are analysed in detail and related to the male literary canon of the time in order to stress both their originality and the existence of an, albeit tentative, female literary canon.
- ISBN10 0333630254
- ISBN13 9780333630259
- Publish Date 18 February 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 October 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English