Women, Modernism, and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780521837804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 188 str.

Penny Farfan

Opis

This interdisciplinary study considers a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the position of women within--and in relation to--modern theatre history. Penny Farfan identifies the different objectives, strategies, possibilities, and limitations of feminist-modernist performance practice. She focuses on Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Robins, Ellen Terry, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Edith Craig, Radclyffe Hall, and Isadora Duncan.

Recenzje

"Penny Farfan's new interdisciplinary study, Women, Modernism, and Performance broadens the definition of performance beyond what some readers may expect, but the payoff that comes from her series of linked essays will excite those interested in any of her title terms. Farfan brackets these essays effectively, introducing the scholars of feminist studies, modernism, and theatre with which her interpretations most resonate, while also revealing the architecture of the book for the reader." - Kate Egerton, Indiana University South Bend

Spis treści

List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.