Discover the trajectories of twenty women in the theatre of our first democratic era! Read More
Women have been writing for the theatre for centuries. However, their names are absent from theatre history textbooks. Why such a deficiency? This meticulous research work looks at the long nineteenth century by exploring the trajectories of twenty playwrights who worked in Paris from the French Revolution to the First World War. Their pugnacity in making their voices heard in the public space, despite the many prohibitions weighing on their gender, reveals the strategies they have had to put in place to make their texts play and thus share their ideas with as many people as possible. Based on their writings and recent works, Julie Rossello Rochet simply rehabilitates the place of women in the history of theatre in France.