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Informationen zum Autor Penny Farfan is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Calgary. Klappentext Women, Modernism, and Performance is an interdisciplinary 2004 study that looks at a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the position of women within - and in relation to - modern theatre history. Considering drama, fiction and dance, as well as a range of performance events such as suffrage demonstrations, lectures, and legal trials, Penny Farfan expands on theatre historical narratives that note the centrality of female characters in male-authored modern plays but that do not address the efforts of women artists to develop alternatives both to mainstream theatre practice and to the patriarchal avant garde. Focusing on Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Robins, Ellen Terry, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Edith Craig, Radclyffe Hall and Isadora Duncan, Farfan identifies different objectives, strategies, possibilities and limitations of feminist-modernist performance practice and suggests how the artists in question transformed the representation of gender in art and life. Zusammenfassung Women! Modernism! and Performance is an interdisciplinary 2004 study that considers a wide variety of sources in order to clarify the position of women within - and in relation to - modern theatre history. Penny Farfan reveals how playwrights! actors and critics transformed the representation of gender in art and life. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. From 'Hedda Gabler' to 'Votes for Women': Elizabeth Robins's early feminist critique of Ibsen; 2. Feminist Shakespeare: Ellen Terry's comic ideal; 3. Unimagined parts, unlived selves: Virginia Woolf on Ellen Terry and the art of acting; 4. Staging the ob/scene; 5. Writing/performing: Virginia Woolf between the acts; 6. Feminism, tragedy, history: the fate of Isadora Duncan; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index....
