Women, Theatre and Performance – serie
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13 produkter
Stage Women, 1900–50
Female Theatre Workers and Professional Practice
Av Maggie B. Gale, Kate Dorney
E-bok, 2019
57 kr
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women’s networks of professional practice in …
Women, theatre and performance
New histories, new historiographies
Av Maggie B. Gale, Viv Gardner
Häftad, 2001
374 kr
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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 …
Auto/biography and identity
Av Maggie B. Gale, Viv Gardner
Häftad, 2009
374 kr
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This groundbreaking book shows how female performers - one of the first groups of professional women - used and still use autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves, the 'face and the mask'. It looks at how a range of women in the …
Treading the bawds
Actresses and playwrights on the Late Stuart stage
Häftad, 2009
382 kr
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Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, ‘Treading the bawds’ analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres …
Female Performance Practice on the Fin-De-SièCle Popular Stages of London and Paris
Experiment and Advertisement
Inbunden, 2007
1156 kr
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This study focuses on seven women who used the fin-de-siècle’s popular stage as a space to develop their experimental performance practices: acts that won them international fame and critical acclaim. The diverse entertainment careers of Maud Allan (1873-1956), Jane Avril (1868-1943), Loïe Fuller …
Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880–1930
An Anthology of Plays by British and American Women from the Modernist Period
Av Maggie B. Gale, Gilli Bush-Bailey
Häftad, 2012
427 kr
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This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford, Ruth Draper, Zora Neale Hurston and G. B. Stern, …
Female performance practice on the fin-de-siècle popular stages of London and Paris
Experiment and advertisement
Häftad, 2013
382 kr
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This study focuses on seven women who used the fin-de-siècle’s popular stage as a space to develop their experimental performance practices: acts that won them international fame and critical acclaim. The diverse entertainment careers of Maud Allan (1873–1956), Jane Avril (1868–1943), Loïe Fuller …
Stage Women, 1900–50
Female Theatre Workers and Professional Practice
Av Maggie B. Gale, Kate Dorney
Inbunden, 2019
1337 kr
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This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women’s networks of professional practice in the theatre and performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women’s sense and experience …
Stage rights!
The Actresses’ Franchise League, activism and politics 1908–58
Av Naomi Paxton
Inbunden, 2018
1263 kr
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Stage rights! explores the work and legacy of the first feminist political theatre group of the twentieth century, the Actresses' Franchise League. Formed in 1908 to support the suffrage movement through theatre, the League and its membership opened up new roles for women on stage and off, …
Vivien Leigh
Actress and icon
Av Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale
Häftad, 2017
371 kr
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This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913–67). Written by experts in theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria and Albert Museum, it uses newly accessible family archives to explore the intensely complex relationship between …
Victorian Touring Actresses
Crossing Boundaries and Negotiating the Cultural Landscape
Inbunden, 2020
1224 kr
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Victorian touring actresses brings new attention to women’s experience of working in nineteenth-century theatre by focusing on a diverse group of largely forgotten ‘mid-tier’ performers, rather than the usual celebrity figures. It examines how actresses responded to changing political, economic and …
Ecology and feminism in performance
Composting histories 1962–2020
Av Cara Berger
Inbunden, 2026
1263 kr
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This book provides a vital new history of feminist performance through an ecological lens. It argues that from the 1960s to the present, artists have used performance to challenge the linked oppression of women and nature. Proposing ‘composting’ as a new method for writing feminist history, the …
Kitty Marion
Actor and Activist
Av Viv Gardner, Diane Atkinson
Inbunden, 2019
1378 kr
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With the outbreak of World War I, German-born Kitty Marion, suspected of being a German spy and placed under surveillance, sailed from Liverpool for New York. She left a dramatic and colourful life behind: a hectic and fascinating 20-year career as a performer crisscrossing Britain first as a …
