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Laughter and Civility The Theater of Emma Gad

Author: Hagendorf, Col

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Emma Gad (1852-1921) was a prolific Danish playwright at the turn of the twentieth century. With sparkling prose and witty dialogue, Gad's ambitious and sophisticated theatrical productions raised important and still pressing questions about sexuality and morality-including the status of women in marriage, divorce, same‐sex desire, and marital infidelity. Through her plays she engaged with contemporaries like Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw, yet she is primarily remembered for her etiquette book, Takt og Tone.

Laughter and Civility, the first biographical and scholarly volume to examine and contextualize her dramas, deeply explores how and why influential women are so often excluded from the canon. Lynn R. Wilkinson provides insightful readings into all twenty-five of Gad's plays and demonstrates how writers and intellectuals of the time, including Georg and Edvard Brandes, took her critically acclaimed work seriously. This volume rightfully reinstates Emma Gad's work into the repertory of European drama and is crucial for scholars interested in turn‐of‐the‐century Scandinavian drama, literature, culture, and politics.

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Publisher Name	University of Wisconsin Press
Author Name	Hagendorf, Col
Format	Audio
Bisac Subject Major	LIT
Language	NG
Isbn 10	0299329305
Isbn 13	9780299329303
Target Age Group	min:NA, max:NA
Dimensions	00.91" H x 00.06" L x 00.00" W
Page Count	332

Author Details

Lynn R. Wilkinson is an associate professor of Germanic studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Anne Charlotte Leffler and Modernist Drama: True Women and New Women on the Fin-de-Sicle Scandinavian Stage and The Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture.

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