resourcefulness and pleasure, which attest to the challenging and subversive power of the theatre and demonstrate playwrights' skill in evading the strictures of the stage censor. Offering a new
understanding of plays by writers such as Pinero, Maugham and Coward, it also encompasses a huge range of long forgotten plays from across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, producing an entertaining and often surprising picture of the vital role played by theatre in presentation, attempted regulation and covert celebration of women's sexuality.
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