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Article: Dramas of Distinction: A Study of Plays by Golden-Age Women.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 1999
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Dramas of Distinction: A Study of Plays by Golden-Age Women. By TERESA SCOTT SOUFAS. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1997. 201 pp. $34.95.
The writing of theatrical texts by women writers of the Golden Age is a neglected area, because so few of these texts survive, and because those that do have not received the critical exposure that would allow them to be included in the debates surrounding the dramatic output of the era. Teresa Scott Soufas seeks to redress this imbalance by presenting an extended critical commentary complementing her previously published anthology of works by the dramatists under review: Angela Azevedo, Ana Caro, Leonor de la Cueva, ...