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New Women in the New Drama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2009

Jan McDonald
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Abstract

While considerable attention has been paid in recent years to the work of women dramatists during the wave of proto-feminist activity in the early years of the present century, the way in which women characters – whether created by male or female writers – were presented has been less adequately investigated. Here, Jan McDonald, Head of the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies in the University of Glasgow, explores the work of well-known and largely-forgotten playwrights alike, discussing the ways in which the ‘new drama’ – the subject of Jan McDonald's recent book for the ‘Macmillan Modern Dramatists’ series – reflected the concerns of the ‘new woman’.

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Research Article
Information
New Theatre Quarterly , Volume 6 , Issue 21 , February 1990 , pp. 31 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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