Feminist Theatre Books

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11. Split Britches

    Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance

    Edited by Sue-Ellen Case

    The Split Britches theatre company have led the way in innovative and challenging lesbian performance for the last decade. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance is a long awaited celebration of the theatre and writing of Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deborah Margolin, who make up this...

    Published June 26th 1996 by Routledge
12. Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s

    Edited by Katherine E. Kelly

    Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of...

    Published June 12th 1996 by Routledge
13. Women in Theatre 2£3

    By Julia Pascal

    Published February 29th 1996 by Routledge
14. Feminist Theatres in the USA

    Staging Women's Experience

    By Charlotte Canning

    Series: Gender in Performance

    Feminist Theaters in the USA is a fresh, informative portrait of a key era in feminist and theater history It is vital reading for feminist students, theater historians and theater practitioners. Their continued movement forward will be challenged and enriched by this timely look back at the trials...

    Published December 6th 1995 by Routledge
15. An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre

    By Elaine Aston

    At last an accessible and intelligent introduction to the energising and challenging relationship between feminism and theatre. In this clear and enlightening book, Aston discusses wide-ranging theoretical topics and provides case studies including: * Feminism and theatre history * `M/Othering the...

    Published December 14th 1994 by Routledge
16. As She Likes It

    Shakespeare's Unruly Women

    By Penny Gay

    Series: Gender in Performance

    As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle head on the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique amongst both Shakespearian and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affects the production to the comedies, and how...

    Published July 20th 1994 by Routledge
17. Contemporary Feminist Theatres

    To Each Her Own

    By Lizbeth Goodman

    Series: Gender in Performance

    Contemporary Feminist Theatres is a major evaluation of the forms feminism has taken in the theatre since 1968. Lizbeth Goodman provides a provocative and interdisciplinary study of the development of feminist theatres in Britain. She examines the treatment of key issues such as gender, race,...

    Published March 24th 1993 by Routledge
18. Reflections/Women/Antiquity

    By Foley

    First published in 1992...

    Published December 17th 1992 by Routledge
19. 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
20. 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