Download or read book Women Dramatists, Humor, and the French Stage written by J. Johnston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a critical void, this book examines French women dramatists of the nineteenth-century who staged works prior to the lifting of censorship laws in 1864. Though none staged overtly feminist drama, Sophie de Bawr, Sophie Gay, Virginie Ancelot, and Delphine Girardin questioned patriarchal dominance and reconstructed ideals of womanhood.