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New woman theatre and the British avant-garde, 1879-1925
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New woman theatre and the British avant-garde, 1879-1925
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eng
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Literatures in English
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Women in the theater--Great Britain--History--19th century
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Women in the theater--Great Britain--History--20th century
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Theater--Great Britain--History and criticism--19th century
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Theater--Great Britain--History and criticism--20th century
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Feminist theater--Great Britain--History--19th century
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Feminist theater--Great Britain--History--20th century
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This dissertation explores how women theatre professionals on the forefront of suffrage activism—playwrights, directors, dramaturg and actresses—influenced late Victorian and modernist British drama. The theatre artists featured in this project include playwright-translator-actress-producer Elizabeth Robins, playwright-translator-actress Christopher St. John (Christabel Marshall), and director-designer-actress-producer Edith Craig. Recent studies that consider their work treat first wave feminist or suffrage drama as a separate analytic category. In contrast, I explore their contributions to British modernist drama and re-situate their work in the context of international theatrical modernism. My project covers a range of innovative theatrical activities by these female dramatists, centered on their avant-garde impulses to deconstruct the subject and continually experiment with form. I consider Robins‘ central role in translating, performing in and directing interpretations of Henrik Ibsen‘s dramas, her later feminist critique of Ibsen and subsequent new ways of portraying female political subjectivity in her plays Alan‘s Wife (1893) and Votes for Women (1907). My chapter on Edith Craig considers how her feminism intersected with her extensive theatrical career and showcases some of her contributions to British modernist theatre. I illustrate Craig‘s engagements with international avant-gardism through an analysis of two plays she directed: a Russian symbolist drama and Japanese marionette play. My final chapter reviews the theatrical career of little-studied playwright Christopher St. John, with particular attention to dramaturgical activities with the Pioneer Players (literary management, translation, and advocacy for experimental European drama). I discuss St. John‘s many important contributions to documenting women‘s history and analyze her play The First Actress, arguing for her innovative appropriation of the pageant form for political ends. My literary analysis of dramatic texts is enriched by archival research into the lives of these artists, their correspondence, theatrical reviews, working documents such as promptbooks (play texts with actress‘s or director‘s notes), lighting and sound plots, and writings by their colleagues and other contemporaries. In this dissertation I hope to contribute to the history of avant-garde and modernist drama studies in Britain and add dimension to the cultural histories of first wave feminism and fin-de-siècle theatre.
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by Leslie Ann Dovale
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Rutgers University
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 30th, 2012.
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