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Daniela Cavallaro - Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy - 9781349950959 - V9781349950959
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Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy

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Description for Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy Hardback. Num Pages: 265 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; AN; DSBH; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 212 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.

This book explores an important moment in Italian women’s theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, authored for the most part by women and performed exclusively by women. Because they featured only female roles, they concentrated on aspects of specifically women’s experience, be it their spirituality, their future lives as wives and mothers, their present lives as workers or students, or their relationships with friends, sisters and mothers. Most often performed in a Catholic environment, they were meant to both entertain and educate, reflecting the specific issues that both performers and spectators had ... Read more

Drawing on material never before researched, Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy: A Stage of Their Own recovers the life and works of forgotten women playwrights while also discussing the role models that educational theatre offered to the young Italian women coming of age in the post-war years. 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349950959
SKU
V9781349950959
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Daniela Cavallaro
Daniela Cavallaro is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where she teaches courses in Italian language, fiction, and drama. She has published in the fields of Italian fiction, film and theatre; women’s revision of the classics; and South Pacific literature. Her 2011 book Italian Women’s Theatre 1930-1960: An Anthology of Plays recovered the life and ... Read more

Reviews for Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy
“The book explores the guiding principles and practices of all-women Catholic educational theatre from 1946 to the late 1960s, and surveys educational plays for all-women casts, analyzing their genres, content, and the publications in which they appeared. … Historians of Italy and theatre, feminist scholars, and those interested in women playwrights, educational theatre, and post-Fascist Italy will surely find Cavallaro’s ... Read more

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