Women in European theatre

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    • Woodrough, Elizabeth
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Women in European theatre

edited by Elizabeth Woodrough

(Intellect European studies series)(Europa, v. 1, no. 4)

Intellect Books, 1995

  • : pbk

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Papers presented at a conference held in March, 1993 at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume is both a study of women as writers and performers in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, and a study of conditions in theatre as they affected women from the 17th century to the 1970s.

Table of Contents

  • A dedicatory essay to the memory of Liz Howe
  • some sexual consequences of the arrival of actresses on the public stage in England, 1660-1700
  • women theatre professionals in 17th-century France
  • the French Astrea
  • Mme de Villedieu woman and dramatist extraordinaire
  • French romanticism and the actresses, Frau Gottsched and Frau Neuber
  • shadow playwrights of the Weimar Republic - Berta Lask, Ilse Langner, Marieluise Fleisser
  • women playwrights on the British stage 1918-1986
  • women and theatre in Italy.

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