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  • Touring Performance and Global Exchange 1850-1960

    Making Tracks

    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.It investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus—removing traditional boundaries that separate studies of performance, and celebrating difference and transformation in ... Read more

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  • Women and Comedy

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    Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to ... Read more

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  • Treading the bawds

    Actresses and playwrights on the Late Stuart stage

    Series series Women, Theatre and Performance
    Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, ‘Treading the bawds’ analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix, and traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres royal to the rebellion that resulted in the creation of a player’s co-operative.Bush-Bailey offers a ... Read more

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  • Stage Mothers

    Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660–1830

    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Stage Mothers explores the connections between motherhood and the theater both on and off stage throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the realities of eighteenth-century motherhood and representations of maternity have recently been investigated in relation to the novel, social history, and political economy, the idea of motherhood and its connection to the theatre as a professional, ... Read more

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