Women, Theatre and Performance: New Histories, New Historiographies

Women, Theatre and Performance: New Histories, New Historiographies
ISBN-10
0719057132
ISBN-13
9780719057137
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
260
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Authors
Maggie Barbara Gale, Viv Gardner

Description

This collection addresses key questions in women's theatre history and retrieves a number of previously "hidden" histories of women performers. The essays range across the past 300 years--topics covered 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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