Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists
Mary Christian
Publication Date
2020
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Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

Analyses plays by Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and other late-Victorian dramatists that responded to changing perceptions of marriage

Examines the extent to which theater became a forum for debating the traditional mode of marriage

Scrutinises the resulting changes to genre conventions that had dominated English drama in the nineteenth century