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Treading the bawds
Actresses and playwrights on the Late Stuart stage
Series: Women, Theatre and Performance
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This scholarly work will appeal to readers interested in feminist theatre studies, cultural history, and early modern drama enthusiasts.
Treading the bawds breaks the traditional boundaries that have separated the histories of the first actresses and the early female playwright. This is a story of collaboration and influence, played out on the seventeenth-century London stage as women's words and women's bodies come together for the first time.
Treading the bawds breaks the traditional boundaries that have separated the histories of the first actresses and the early female playwright.
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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 fresh approach to the history of women by seeing their neglected plays in the context of performance. By combining detailed analysis of selected plays within the broader context of a playhouse managed by its leading actresses, Bush-Bailey challenges the received historical and literary canons, including a radical solution to the mysterious identity of the anonymous playwright 'Ariadne'.
It is a story of female collaboration and influence with the spotlight focused on the very public world of women in the commercial business of theatre.
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Michael Caines of The Times Literary Supplement calls the book "a polemical act of revision" that "gives the study of this period in theatre history a welcome jolt."
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ISBN: 9780719072512
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 July 2009
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 281g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Gilli Bush-Bailey is Professor Emerita of Women's Performance History at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama at the University of London
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