Women, theatre and performance

New histories, new historiographies
Herausgeber: Gale, Maggie B.; Gardner, Viv

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first in a new annual series, Women, Theatre and Performance that will consist of themed volumes on diverse aspects of women's engagement with theatre and performance. Ranging across three hundred years the essays in this volume address key questions in women's theatre history and retrieve a number of hitherto 'hidden' histories of women performers. Resituates women's, largely neglected, creative contribution within theatre and cultural history and seeks to challenge orthodox readings of both history and text. Topics include: Susanna Centlivre and the notion of intertheatricality; gender and theatrical space; the repositioning of women performers such as Wagner's Muse, Willhelmina Schröder-Devrient, the Comédie Français' 'Mademoiselle Mars', Mme Arnould-Plessey, and the actresses of the Russian serf theatre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780719057137
• ISBN-10: 0719057132
• Artikelnr.: 21062449

Autorenporträt

Maggie B. Gale is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham. Viv Gardner is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

1. Reading the intertheatrical or, the mysterious disappearance of Susanna CentilitreJacky Bratton 2. The invisible spectatrice: Gender, geography and theatrical space
Viv Gardner 3. Theatre history, historiography and women's dramatic writing
Susan Bennett 4. Wilhemine Schröder
Devrient: Wagner's theatrical muse
Susan A. Rutherford 5. Memories of Plessy: Henry James re
stages the past
John Stokes 6. Elizabeth Robins: Hysteria, politics and performance
Joanna Townsend 7. From fame to obscurity: In search of Clemence Dane
Maggie B. Gale 8. Workshop to mainstream: Women's playwriting in the contemporary British theatre
John Deeney 9. Feminists perform their past: Constructing history in The Heidi Chronicles and The Break of Day
Charlotte Canning 10. No space of our own? Margaret Macnamara, Alma Brosnan, Ruth Dodds and the ILP Arts Guild
Ros Merkin 11. Comic militancy: The politics of suffrage drama
Susan Carlson 12. The gender of Russian Serf theatre and performance
Catherine Schuler