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• Title:The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage edited by Jan Sewell, Clare Smout.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Sewell, Jan.
  Smout, Clare.
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  Springer Nature - Springer Literature, Cultural and Media Studies eBooks 2019 English International
  
• Published/Created:Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
  
• In:Springer eBooks
  

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  • Call Number: PN2100-2193
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Theater-History.
  Theater.
  Actors.
  Performing arts.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  Theatre History.
  Performers and Practitioners.
  Global/International Theatre and Performance.
  Contemporary Theatre.
  Performing Arts.
  
• Edition:1st ed. 2019.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
• Terms governing use:Access may be restricted to institutions with a site license.
  
• Summary:This book brings together nearly 40 academics and theatre practitioners to chronicle and celebrate the courage, determination and achievements of women on stage across the ages and around the globe. The collection stretches from ancient Greece to present-day Australasia via the United States, Soviet Russia, Europe, India, South Africa and Japan, offering a series of analytical snapshots of women performers, their work and the conditions in which they produced it. Individual chapters provide in-depth consideration of specific moments in time and geography while the volume as a whole and its juxtapositions stimulate consideration of the bigger picture, underlining the challenges women have faced across cultures in establishing themselves as performers and the range of ways in which they gained access to the stage. Organised chronologically, the volume looks not just to the past but the future: it challenges the very notions of 'history', 'stage' and even the definition of 'women' itself.
  
• ISBN:9783030238285
  9783030238278
  9783030238292
  9783030238308
  
• Contents:1. General Introduction; Jan Sewell and Clare Smout
  2. Female Performers in the Greco-Roman World: An Introduction; Anne Duncan
  3. The Roman Mimae: Female Performers in Ancient Rome; Anne Duncan
  4. Ludism, Gender-Play and Roman Theatricality; Clare Foster
  5. Women and Medieval Drama: Selected Sisters and Worshipful Wives; Sue Niebrzydowski
  6. The First Italian Actresses, Isabella Andreini and the Commedia dell'Arte; Margaret Rose
  7. Elizabeth I and the Dancing Stuart Queens: Female Agency and Subjectivity in Early Modern English Court Drama; Catherine Clifford
  8. Margaret Cavendish's Female Fairground Performers; M. A. Katritzky
  9. Women Performers on English Stages 1660-1740; Jane Milling
  10. Eighteenth-Century English Actresses: From Rustic Simplicity to Urban Sophistication; Laura J. Rosenthal
  11. Late Eighteenth-Century English Actresses and Material Culture; Laura Engel
  12. Performing the Nation State: Female Representation in Nineteenth-Century American Theatre and the American Cultural Imagination; Pam Cobrin
  13. Death and the Working Woman: Actresses, Illness, and Labour from Rachel to Bernhardt; Roberta Barker
  14. Ada Rehan: The Case of the Missing International Star; Lezlie C. Cross
  15. Japanese Women on Stage: From Tradition to Modernity; Yamanashi Makiko
  16. Leading Ladies on the Modern Greek Stage: Personal and Political Rivalries from Paraskevopoulou and Veroni to Kotopouli, Kyveli and Papadaki; Xenia Georgopoulou
  17. British Actresses, 1900-1950: Professional Transformations; Maggie B. Gale
  18. Serafima Birman, Sofia Giatsintova, Alla Tarasova and Olga Pyzhova: 'Second Wave' Russian and Soviet Actresses, Stanislavsky's System and the Moscow Art Theatre; Maria Ignatieva and Rose Whyman
  19. Actress-Entrepreneurs of the Harlem Renaissance / New Negro Era: Anita Bush, Abbie Mitchell, Rose McClendon, Mercedes Gilbert, Venzella Jones; Cheryl Black
  20. 'Bad Girls' of 1960s-1990s American Performance: Adrian Piper, Karen Finley and Carolee Schneemann; Dorothy Chansky
  21. Birth, Copulation and Death: Feminist Theatre and Performance Practice across Four Decades; Anna Furse
  22. Feminist Theatre: Putting Women Centre Stage; Sue Parrish
  23. Theatre of Black Women: A Personal Account; Bernardine Evaristo
  24. Women and Theatre, Birmingham: The Early Years (1984-1994); Polly Wright, with Jo Broadwood and Janice Connolly
  25. Jenny Sealey of Graeae in Conversation with Clare Smout, February 2018: Gender and Disability; Jenny Sealey, with Clare Smout
  26. Women on the Classical Kerala Stage: The Kutiyattam and Kathakali Traditions; Diane Daugherty
  27. Negotiating Representations of Coloured Women in Post-Apartheid South African Performance; Amy Jephta
  28. Great British Dames: Mature Actresses and their Negotiation of Celebrity in the Twenty-First Century; Mary Luckhurst
  29. Feminist Dramaturgy in Practice: Lazarus Theatre Company's Staging of Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam; Sara Reimers and Elizabeth Schafer
  30. Theatre Inside/Outside Prison: San Vittore Globe Theatre Company, Milan; Susan Marshall
  31. Australasian Shakespeare: Race and the Female Star; Anna Kamaralli
  32. Women Playing Shakespeare's Men: Achieving Equality on the Twenty-First Century British Stage; Jami Rogers
  33. Theatre, Education and Embodied Cognition: Young Women in a Changing World; Tracy Irish
  34. Trans Women on Stage: Erasure, Resurgence and #notadebate; Emma Frankland.