Women Dramatists, Humor, and the French Stage
ISBN: 9781137452900
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan US
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Subjects: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection;

Filling a critical void, this book examines French women dramatists of the nineteenth-century who staged works prior to the lifting of censorship laws in 1864. Though none staged overtly feminist drama, Sophie de Bawr, Sophie Gay, Virginie Ancelot, and Delphine Girardin questioned patriarchal dominance and reconstructed ideals of womanhood.

Joyce A. Johnston is Professor of French at Stephen F. Austin State University, USA.

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