Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

by Mary Christian

Book Overview

​This book examines plays produced in England in the 1890s and early 1900s and the ways in which these plays responded to changing perceptions of marriage. Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and other late-Victorian dramatists challenged romanticized ideals of love and domesticity, and, in the process, these authors appropriated and rewrote the genre conventions that had dominated English drama for much of the nineteenth century. In their plays, theater...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030406415
• ISBN13: 9783030406417
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"