Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880-1930 An anthology of plays by British and American women from the Modernist period

by Gale, Maggie B.; Bush-Bailey, Gilli

• ISBN13: 9780719082047
• ISBN10: 0719082048
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford, Ruth Draper, Zora Neale Hurston, and G.B. Stern, originally performed across commercial and amateur theaters in Britain and America. Some of the plays have remained unpublished since their original performance -- Georgina Weldon's Not Alone, Clothilde Graves' Mother of Three, Rachel Crother's Ourselves, and Marie Stope's Our Ostriches. Others are anthologized here alongside plays with which they connect aesthetically and historically, for example, Edith Lyttelton's Warp and Woof, Elizabeth Robins' Votes for Women, Elizabeth Baker's Edith, Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, and Aimee Stuarts' Nine Till Six. The volume, for students and scholars, provides an accessible collection of texts exemplifying the range and breadth of women's theater writing from the 1880s to the early decades of the twentieth century. This will make compelling reading for anyone interested in women's writing for the theater or wider practices of adaptation in literature and performance.

Author Biography

Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair in Drama at The University of Manchester. Gilli Bush-Bailey is Reader in Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. ix
Series editors' foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Overview	p. 1
Plays
Introduction	p. 7
Georgina Weldon	p. 29
Not Alone (1885) (with George Lander)	p. 34
Clotilde Graves	p. 90
A Mother of Three (1896)	p. 93
Edith Lyttelton	p. 151
Warp and Woof (1904)	p. 155
Elizabeth Robins	p. 207
Votes for Women (1907)	p. 211
Elizabeth Baker	p. 275
Edith (1912)	p. 278
Rachel Crothers	p. 292
Ourselves (1913)	p. 295
Marie Stopes	p. 339
Our Ostriches (1923)	p. 342
Sophie Treadwell	p. 388
Machinal (1928)	p. 391
Aimée and Philip Stuart	p. 455
Nine Till Six (1930)	p. 458
Zora Neale Hurston	p. 532
Lowing and Jawing (1931)	p. 534
Poker! (1931)	p. 538
G.B. Stern	p. 541
The Man Who Pays The Piper (1931)	p. 544
Monologues
Introduction	p. 613
May Isabel Fisk	p. 623
The Art of Giving a Monologue (Date of Publication: 1914)	p. 625
At the Theatre (Date of Publication: 1907)	p. 628
Beatrice Herford	p. 630
At the Opticians (Date of Publication: 1927)	p. 631
Josephine A.M. Morris	p. 632
The Home-Coming of Jack O'Neill (Date of Publication: 1913)	p. 633
Mabel Constanduros	p. 636
Cheering up Maria (Date of Publication: 1927)	p. 638
Jackie 'Moms' Mabley	p. 641
from Live at the Greek Theatre	p. 642
Ruth Draper	p. 644
Doctors and Diets (Date of Publication: 1960)	p. 645
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