Women and theatre in the age of suffrage : the Pioneer Players, 1911-1925 / Katharine Cockin ; consultant editor, Jo Campling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cockin, Katharine, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pioneer Players (Theater group : London, England)--History.

Pioneer Players (Theater group : London, England).

Feminist theater--England--London--History--20th century.

Feminist theater.

Women in the theater--England--London--History--20th century.

Women in the theater.

History.

England--London.

Physical Description:

x, 239 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

The innovative work of the Pioneer Players, a London-based theater society founded in 1911 by Edith Craig, is explored here for the first time, drawing on original archive research and taking an interdisciplinary approach to women's involvement in theater during British women's suffrage movement. This book tests the claim that the Pioneer Players was a "women's theater," and investigates in a literary context the Pioneer Players' relationships to the women's suffrage movement, feminism, and women's writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.

ISBN:

0333686969

OCLC:

43985453