Diana of Dobson's

by Cicely Hamilton

Book Overview

Very successful when first performed in London in 1908, Diana of Dobson's introduces its audience to the overworked and underpaid female assistants at Dobson's Drapery Emporium, whose only alternative to their dead-end jobs is the unlikely prospect of marriage. Although Cicely Hamilton calls the play "a romantic comedy," like George Bernard Shaw she also criticizes a social structure in which so-called self-made men profit from the cheap labour of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551113422
• ISBN13: 9781551113425
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"