Women and Playwriting in Nineteenth-Century Britain

This collection of essays written by a team of leading scholars in the field undertakes not simply to recover the names and careers of women playwrights but to call into question the whole idea of what a playwright is what she does and why it matters. Gender inquiry is the start: destabilizing the category of playwrights loosens the borders of theater history making it possible to reconceptualize theater and drama not as a product of culture but as social processes dynamically interacting with culture.