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Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage
Katharine Cockin
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Description for Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage
Hardback. The innovative work of Pioneer Players, a London based theatre society founded in 1911 by Edith Craig, is explored here drawing on original archive research and taking an interdisciplinary approach to women's involvement in theatre during the British women's suffrage movement. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AN; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
The innovative work of The Pioneer Players, a London-based theatre 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 theatre during the British women's suffrage movement. This book tests the claim that the Pioneer Players was a women's theatre and investigates in a literary context the Pioneer Players' relationship to the women's suffrage movement, to feminism and to women's writing.
The innovative work of The Pioneer Players, a London-based theatre 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 theatre during the British women's suffrage movement. This book tests the claim that the Pioneer Players was a women's theatre and investigates in a literary context the Pioneer Players' relationship to the women's suffrage movement, to feminism and to women's writing.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333686966
SKU
V9780333686966
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99-15
About Katharine Cockin
KATHARINE COCKIN is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull. She is the author of Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives.
Reviews for Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage
'This volume represents an illuminating and eminently worthwhile endeavour.' - Jan McDonald, University of Glasgow, Theatre Research International