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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Online-Publikation |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sos Eltis |
ISBN: | 9780199691357 0199691355 9780191751448 0191751448 |
OCLC Number: | 919292395 |
Description: | Online-Ressource |
Contents: | Introduction ; 1. Seduced Maidens and Resourceful Maids ; 2. Bigamy and Sensation ; 3. English Decency and French Immorality ; 4. Sex Problems and Nature's Law ; 5. Workers and Wages ; 6. Rewriting the Past ; Afterwords |
Responsibility: | Sos Eltis. |
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The many plays Eltis discusses are carefully considered, and her mapping of the movement from Manichean allegory and "just world" of melodrama to the complex questioning and unresolved endings of plays after the 1890s is informative and enjoyable. * Hayley Jayne Bradley, The Times Higher Education Supplement * Acts of Desire looks beyond the depiction of women on stage to address the surrounding social, political and economic issues which affected the theatre. * Anna-Maria Ssemuyaba, The Times Literary Supplement * Read more...
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