Social Significance of the Modern Drama, The.
Goldman, Emma. The Social Significance of the Modern Drama. Boston: Richard G. Badger Toronto: The Copp Clark Co., Limited, 1914.
8vo.; four pages of ads in the rear; tan cloth, stamped in black; light wear.
First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front endpaper: To Anna Dorn / a new found /friend. /Faithfully / Emma Goldman. She devoted some 20 years to speaking and acting on behalf of women’s rights, free speech and the new drama. One constant theme was the integration of these causes, through the works of Ibsen, Shaw, Strindberg and other playwrights. Her lectures led directly to the publication of The Social Significance Of Modern Drama. Her disparagement of institutional restraints — such as marriage — on human relations, were often themes of those of the modern dramatists, who, Goldman says, “mirror in their work as much of the spiritual and social revolt as is expressed by the most fiery speech of the propagandist” (Modern Drama). An important text in the modern feminist movement and scarce inscribed. NAW II, 57-59. Women’s Writing. 100 Most Influential Women Of All Time, #49. Timelines Of American Women’s History.
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