Women representation in the work of two dramatists from the turn of the century Europe: Henrik I Sen and Joaquín Dicenta

Abstract

Women in 19th century Europe were not part, per se, of civil society. Henrik Ibsen and Joaquín Dicenta fought against this state of affairs, although in different ways in a medium with great social repercussion: the theater. This study analyzes from a gender perspective aspects of the work of these two playwrights. Joaquín Dicenta is also vindicated as a standard-bearer in Spain for the defense of women´s rights, in whose claims he went further than Eugenio Sellés.