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Literary Criticism Drama

Redressing the Past

The Politics of Early English-Canadian Women's Drama, 1880-1920

by (author) Kym Bird

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2004
Category
Drama
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773526112
    Publish Date
    Mar 2004
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773571471
    Publish Date
    Mar 2004
    List Price
    $95.00

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Bird argues that the playwrights, their productions, and their texts express the contradictory relations within these forms of feminism: on the one hand they represent women's social and political emancipation and, on the other, they affirm patriarchal structures and the status quo. Implicitly, this study calls into question what traditionally constitutes drama by treating plays written in non-canonical forms, mounted in nonprofessional venues, and published by marginal presses or not at all as important literary, theatrical, and historical documents.

About the author

Kym Bird is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.

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