Penny Farfan

Women, Modernism, and Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Penny Farfan examines the role of women in the history of modernist theatre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780521040983
• ISBN-10: 0521040981
• Artikelnr.: 23025119

Autorenporträt

Penny Farfan is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Calgary.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. From 'Hedda Gabler' to 'Votes for Women': Elizabeth Robins's early feminist critique of Ibsen
2. Feminist Shakespeare: Ellen Terry's comic ideal
3. Unimagined parts, unlived selves: Virginia Woolf on Ellen Terry and the art of acting
4. Staging the ob/scene
5. Writing/performing: Virginia Woolf between the acts
6. Feminism, tragedy, history: the fate of Isadora Duncan
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.