Sheds new light on the historical precedents for contemporary feminist theater.
A finalist in the 1993 Bernard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History.
A Stage of Their Own explores the ways in which the suffrage cause was directly addressed in a wide variety of pageants, duologues, and one-act plays, as well as in a series of critically acclaimed full-length dramas by such playwrights as Elizabeth Robins, Cicely Hamilton, and Elizabeth Baker.
"Anyone with an emerging or established interest in the Edwardian feminist theatre will find here a rich new source of information presented in a highly readable style."
---Theatre Research International
"Stowell's exegeses link the plays as meditations on marriage, maternity, and finance---the nexus of social bonds willingly and unwillingly borne by women and men---and the complications ensuing from feminist writers' interests in both gender and class."
---Essays in Theatre/Etudes Théâtrales
Sheila Stowell is Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of Victoria. She is also the author, with Joel Kaplan, of Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes.
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6 x 9, 176 pagesISBN 0-472-08273-6
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