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Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League : staging equality /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dolgin, Ellen Ecker, 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2015]
Subjects:
Actresses' Franchise League > History.
Shaw, Bernard, > 1856-1950.
Women in the theater > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women theatrical producers and directors > Great Britain > Biography.
Actresses > Great Britain > History > Biography.
Feminist theater > England > London > History > 20th century.
Suffrage > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Table of 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.