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 Schroeder-Devrient, the Comedie Francais' 'Mademoiselle Mars', Mme Arnould-Plessey, and the actresses of the Russian serf theatre. -- .
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 Schroeder-Devrient, the Comedie Francais' 'Mademoiselle Mars', Mme Arnould-Plessey, and the actresses of the Russian serf theatre. -- .
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
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
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