List of illustrations: Preface Part I. The Making of the Victorian Actress: 1. 'Think of the power-' 2. Masculine panic and the panthers of the stage 3. Actresses, managers and feminized theatre Part II. Gender and Victorian Playwriting: 4. The impossibility of women playwrights 5. Textual assaults: women's novels on stage 6. Victorian plays by women Part III. Revolution: 7. Elizabeth Robins, Oscar Wilde and the 'Theatre of the Future' Notes Index.
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