Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4725-7061-1 (ISBN)
She captured the imagination of Virginia Woolf, inspiring the portrait of Miss LaTrobe in her 1941 novel Between the Acts, and influenced a generation of actors, such as Sybil Thorndike and Edith Evans. Frequently eclipsed in accounts of theatrical endeavour by her younger brother, Edward Gordon Craig, Edith Craig's contribution both to theatre and to the women’s suffrage movement receives timely reappraisal in Katharine Cockin’s meticulously researched and wide-ranging biography, released for the seventieth anniversary of Craig’s death.
Katharine Cockin is Professor of English at the University of Hull, UK. She has published widely on women’s suffrage literature and on the lives and work of Ellen Terry and her daughter, Edith Craig. She is editor of the eight-volume Collected Letters of Ellen Terry (2010-2017) and author of several books on Edith Craig and women’s suffrage literature, including the first biography of Craig (1998), Women and the Theatre in the Age of Suffrage (2001) and two volumes of women’s suffrage literature (2007).
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface: A Note on Sources and More Dramatic Lives
Chapter One. Introduction: Edith Craig Retrospectives
Chapter Two 1869-1902 Her Mother’s Daughter: The Lyceum’s Apprentice
Chapter Three 1903-07 The New Woman Experiments and the Genealogy of the ‘Scala masque’
Chapter Four. 1907-1914 The Art of Women’s Suffrage Theatre and the ‘fire of Prometheus’
Chapter Five. 1911-25 The Pioneer Players as London’s Art Theatre
Chapter Six. 1915-25 Post-war Recreation and the Nativity Play
Chapter Seven. 1919-46 The Little Theatre Mission: Pilgrims and Pageants
Chapter Eight. Conclusion: On the Theatres of Art
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.01.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 6 b&w illus |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 402 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV | |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4725-7061-8 / 1472570618 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4725-7061-1 / 9781472570611 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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