Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: The Pioneer Players 1911-1925

ISBN-13: 9780333686966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 239 str.

Katharine Cockin; K. Cockin

Opis

The innovative work of Pioneer Players, a London based theatre society founded in 1911 by Edith Craig, is explored here drawing on original archive research and taking an interdisciplinary approach to women's involvement in theatre during the British women's suffrage movement.

Recenzje

'This volume represents an illuminating and eminently worthwhile endeavour.' - Jan McDonald, University of Glasgow, Theatre Research International

Spis treści

Acknowledgements List of Plates Introducing the Pioneer Players The Costs of a Free Theatre Propaganda and the Feminist Play of Ideas Pioneers Perform Politics Outside Marriage Working Women The Luck of War Towards an Art Theatre On The Verge Appendices Bibliography Index

O autorze

KATHARINE COCKIN is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull. She is the author of Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives.