Series: Women, Theatre and Performance

Drawing on feminist cultural materialist theories and historiographies, Treading the bawds analyses the collaboration between actresses Elizabeth Barry and Anne Bracegirdle and women playwrights such as Aphra Behn and Mary Pix. It traces a line of influence from the time of the first theatres royal to the rebellion that resulted in the creation of a player's co-operative. Bush-Bailey offers a...

The first in a new annual series, Women, Theatre and Performance will consist of themed volumes on diverse aspects of women's engagement with theatre and performance. Ranging across three hundred years, the essays in this volume address key questions in women's theatre history and retrieve a number of hitherto 'hidden' histories of women performers. This collection resituates women's largely neglected...