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Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League : staging equality / Ellen Ecker Dolgin.
Van Pelt Library PN2595.13.W65 D85 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dolgin, Ellen Ecker, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Actresses' Franchise League--History.
- Actresses' Franchise League.
- Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950.
- Shaw, Bernard.
- Women in the theater--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women in the theater.
- Women theatrical producers and directors--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women theatrical producers and directors.
- Actresses--Great Britain--History--Biography.
- Actresses.
- Feminist theater--England--London--History--20th century.
- Feminist theater.
- Suffrage--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Suffrage.
- History.
- England--London.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015.
- Summary:
- Early 20th century non-commercial theaters emerged as hubs of social transformation on both sides of the Atlantic. The 1904-1907 seasons at London's Royal Court Theatre were a particularly galvanizing force, with 11 plays by Bernard Shaw-along with works by Granville Barker, John Galsworthy and Elizabeth Robins-that starred activist performers and challenged social conventions. Many of these plays were seen on American stages. Featuring more conversation than plot points, the new drama collectively urged audiences to recognize themselves in the characters. In 1908, four hundred actresses attended a London hotel luncheon, determined to effect change for women. The hot topics-chillingly pertinent today-mixed public and private controversies over sexuality, income distribution and full citizenship across gender and class lines. A resolution emerged to form the Actresses Franchise League, which produced original suffrage plays, participated in mass demonstrations and collaborated with ordinary women. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the spectacular turned inward
- Getting past the tableaux
- Her unrecognizable self : smashing the idol of woman
- Theatre no stranger than ourselves
- Moving mountains in small spaces : new drama ca. 1900-1914
- Breaking news : transatlantic theatrical activists
- Tandem stages : transatlantic suffrage drama
- Crossing aisles & isles : 1908-World War I
- Splintered souls : 1914-1924.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786469475
- 0786469471
- OCLC:
- 895338253
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