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Women, Theatre and Performance: New Histories, New Historiographies

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Women, Theatre and Performance: New Histories, New Historiographies
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Maggie B. Gale
Edited by Viv Gardner
Index by Susan Williams
SeriesWomen, Theatre and Performance
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreDrama
History of specific subjects
ISBN/Barcode 9780719057137
ClassificationsDewey:792.082
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Illustrations, black & white

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 5 April 2001
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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. -- .

Author Biography

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 -- .