Playwrights Books

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41. Getting Into the Act

    Women Playwrights in London 1776-1829

    By Ellen Donkin

    Series: Gender in Performance

    Getting Into the Act is a vigorous and refreshing account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional success in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Ellen Donkin relates fascinating, disturbing tales about the male theatre managers to whom they were...

    Published September 20th 1995 by Routledge
42. British Realist Theatre

    The New Wave in its Context 1956 - 1965

    By Stephen Lacey

    The British `New Wave' of dramatists, actors and directors in the late 1950s and 1960s created a defining moment in post-war theatre. British Realist Theatre is an accessible introduction to the New Wave, providing the historical and cultural background which is essential for a true understanding...

    Published September 6th 1995 by Routledge
43. Beaumarchais and the Theatre

    By William D. Howarth

    William D Howarth sets Le Mariage de Figaro and Beaumarchais's other dramatic works in the broad historical context of pre-revolutionary France, providing a unique and authoritative study of the dramatist and his plays. He presents detailed analyses of the plays themselves, discussing their...

    Published April 19th 1995 by Routledge