| Description |
xi, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. From 'Hedda Gabler' to 'Votes for Women' : Elizabeth Robins's early feminist critique of Ibsen -- 2. Feminist Shakespeare : Ellen Terry's comic ideal -- 3. Unimagined parts, unlived selves : Virginia Woolf on Ellen Terry and the art of acting -- 4. Staging the ob/scene -- 5. Writing/performing : Virginia Woolf between the acts -- 6. Feminism, tragedy, history : the fate of Isadora Duncan |
| Summary |
"Women, Modernism, and Performance is an interdisciplinary study that looks at a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the position of women within - and in relation to - modern theatre history. Considering drama, fiction, and dance, as well as a range of performance events such as suffrage demonstrations, lectures, and a legal trial, Penny Farfan expands on theatre-historical narratives that note the centrality of female characters in male-authored modern plays but that do not address the efforts of women artists to develop alternatives both to mainstream theatre practice and to the patriarchal avant-garde."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women in the theater -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Women in the theater -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Women in the performing arts -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
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Women in the performing arts -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
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Women in literature.
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European drama -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| LC no. |
2004045682 |
| ISBN |
0521837804 |
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