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Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880-1930: An Anthology of Plays by British and American Women from the Modernist Period Paperback - 2012

by Maggie B. Gale (Editor); Gilli Bush-Bailey (Editor)


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This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford, Ruth Draper, Zora Neale Hurston and G.B. Stern, originally performed across commercial and amateur theatres in Britain and America. Some of the plays have remained unpublished since their original performance - Georgina Weldon's Not Alone, Clothilde Graves' Mother of Three, Rachel Crother's Ourselves and Marie Stope's Our Ostriches. Others are anthologized here alongside plays with which they connect aesthetically and historically, for example, Edith Lyttelton's Warp and Woof, Elizabeth Robins' Votes for Women, Elizabeth Baker's Edith, Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and Aime Stuarts' Nine Till Six.

The volume, for students and scholars, provides an accessible collection of texts exemplifying the range and breadth of women's theatre writing from the 1880s to the early decades of the twentieth century.

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This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford, Ruth Draper, Zora Neale Hurston and G.B. Stern, originally performed across commercial and amateur theatres in Britain and America. Some of the plays have remained unpublished since their original performance - Georgina Weldon's Not Alone, Clothilde Graves' Mother of Three, Rachel Crother's Ourselves and Marie Stope's Our Ostriches. Others are anthologized here alongside plays with which they connect aesthetically and historically, for example, Edith Lyttelton's Warp and Woof, Elizabeth Robins' Votes for Women, Elizabeth Baker's Edith, Sophie Treadwell's Machinal and Aime Stuarts' Nine Till Six.

The volume, for students and scholars, provides an accessible collection of texts exemplifying the range and breadth of women's theatre writing from the 1880s to the early decades of the twentieth century.

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  • Title Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880-1930: An Anthology of Plays by British and American Women from the Modernist Period
  • Author Maggie B. Gale (Editor); Gilli Bush-Bailey (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition U.S. Edition
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Manchester University Press, Manchester
  • Date 2012-03-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780719082047 / 0719082048
  • Weight 2.2 lbs (1.00 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Women's Studies
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects English drama - 20th century, American drama - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011277749
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.820

About the author

Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair in Drama at The University of Manchester

Gilli Bush-Bailey is Reader in Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London

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