Title Treading the bawds : actresses and playwrights on the late-Stuart stage / Gilli Bush-Bailey

Published Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2006 New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (226 pages) Series Women, Theatre and Performance Women, theatre and performance. Contents In the company of women -- United we stand -- Control and influence on the Late Stuart stage -- New moves, new voices -- Competition and criticism -- Re-forming the stage -- Old stories, new histories -- Certainly not a conclusion Summary 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 royal to the rebellion that resulted in the creation of a player's co-operative. Bush-Bailey offers a fresh approach to the history of women, seeing their neglected plays in the context of performance. By combining detailed analysis of selected plays within the broader context of a playhouse managed by its leading actresses, Bush-Bailey challenges the received historical and literary canons, including a radical solution to the mysterious identity of the anonymous playwright 'Ariadne'. It is a story of female collaboration and influence with the spotlight focused on the very public world of women in the commercial business of theatre.-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Gilli Bush-Bailey is Lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London English Print version record Subject Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre. SUBJECT Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre fast Subject Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 17th century Women in the theater -- England -- History -- 18th century Women dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 Theater -- England -- History -- 17th century Theater -- England -- History -- 18th century DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. Theater Women in the theater England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2007408194 ISBN 9781847793638 1847793630 9781781701935 1781701938 1847796400 9781847796400

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