This volume presents some of the most influential work on gender and performing arts. It reviews women's contributions to theatre history and examines how theatre has represented women over the centuries. The reader is introduced to major theoretical approaches, and more complex questions about gender, the body and cross-dressing. Coverage includes: women's stage work; women's bodies on stage; feminist approaches; comparative perspectives; women's status in the theatre; and reception and reviewing.

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and including new writings from leading scholars, the book provides material on:
* post-coloniality and performance theory and practice
* critical theories and performance
* intercultural perspectives
* power, politics and the theatre
* sexuality in performance
* live arts and the media
* theatre games.

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance brings together for the first time a comprehensive collection of extracts from key writings on politics, ideology, and performance.
Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, and including new writings from leading scholars, the book provides material on:
* post-coloniality and performance theory and practice
* critical theories and performance
* intercultural perspectives
* power, politics and the theatre
* sexuality in performance
* live arts and the media
* theatre games.

'A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past . . . The strong account of Woolf's relation to tradition in Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past will surely facilitate further study of the gender politics of Modernism.' --Times Literary Supplement
'An important intervention at a time in which there is particular interest in Woolf's relationship to the past.'--Professor Laura Marcus, University of Sussex
'Essential and intellectually provocative reading for Woolf scholars and for common readers alike.'--Vara...

'A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past . . . The strong account of Woolf's relation to tradition in Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past will surely facilitate further study of the gender politics of Modernism.' --Times Literary Supplement
'An important intervention at a time in which there is particular interest in Woolf's relationship to the past.'--Professor Laura Marcus, University of Sussex
'Essential and intellectually provocative reading for Woolf scholars and for common readers alike.'--Vara...