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  1. Actresses as Working Women

    Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture

    By Tracy C. Davis

    Series: Gender in Performance

    Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and...

    Published June 26th 1991 by Routledge

  2. Carry on Understudies

    Theatre and Sexual Politics

    By Michelene Wandor

    `one hell of a seminal read ... Here is a book that grapples, with energy, ingenuity and terrific intellectual rigour, with a bewildering forest of issues around gender and politics ... illuminating, insightful, perceptive.' - Women's Review...

    Published June 25th 1986 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Re: Direction: A Theoretical and Practical Guide
    Edited by Gabrielle Cody, Rebecca Schneider
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  2. Religion, Theatre, and Performance: Acts of Faith
    Edited by Lance Gharavi
    To Be Published July 7th 2013
  3. Leading Creators of Twentieth-Century Czech Theatre
    By Jarka M. Burian
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  4. Theatre of Conscience 1939-53: A Study of Four Touring British Community Theatres
    Edited by Peter Billingham
    To Be Published September 26th 2013
  5. The Adelphi Players: The Theatre of Persons
    By Dr Cecil DaviesEdited by Peter Billingham
    To Be Published September 26th 2013

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