The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism

Catherine Burroughs, J. Ellen Gainor, Catherine Burroughs, J. Ellen Gainor

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000815986
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Theatre

The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers.

Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women's writing within, and also reframes the field's male-defined and male-dominated traditions. Its collection of documents demonstrates women's consistent and wide-ranging engagement with writing about theatre and performance and offers a more expansive understanding of the forms and locations of such theoretical and critical writing, dealing with materials that often lie outside established production and publication venues. This alternative tradition of theatre writing that emerges allows contemporary readers to form new ways of conceptualizing the field, bringing to the fore a long-neglected, vibrant, intelligent, deeply informed, and expanded canon that generates a new era of scholarship, learning, and artistry.

The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatrical Theory and Dramatic Criticism is an important intervention into the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, Literary Studies, and Cultural History, while adding new dimensions to Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Five Medieval Women: St. Perpetua (c. 185–203), Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), Hadewijch (c. 1200–c. 1250), Katherine Sutton (d. 1376), Margery Kempe (c. 1373–1438)
• 2 Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c. 935–c. 1002)
• 3 Margaret Lucas Cavendish (c.1623–1673)
• 4 Aphra Behn (1640–1689)
• 5 Anne Finch (1661–1720)
• 6 Susanna Centlivre (c. 1669–1723)
• 7 Charlotte Lennox (1729–1804)
• 8 Charlotte Charke (1713–1760)
• 9 Frances Burney (1752–1840)
• 10 Hannah Cowley (1743–1809)
• 11 Lady Eglantine Wallace (c. 1754–1803)
• 12 Sally Siddons (1775–1803)
• 13 Elizabeth Inchbald (1753–1821)
• 14 Joanna Baillie (1762–1851)
• 15 Felicia Hemans (1793–1835)
• 16 Adelaide O'Keeffe (1776–1865)
• 17 Sarah Siddons (1755–1831)
• 18 “Anonymous”
• 19 Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855)
• 20 Amelia Chesson (1833–1902)
• 21 Frances A. Kemble (1809–1893)
• 22 Olive Logan (1839–1909)
• 23 Michael Field [Katharine Harris Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1861–1913)]
• 24 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
• 25 Phyllis Robbins (1883–1972)
• 26 Lady Augusta Gregory (1852–1932)
• 27 Edith Craig (1869–1947)
• 28 Christopher St. John (1871–1960)
• 29 Binodini Dasi (1862–1941)
• 30 Florence Kiper (1886–1976)
• 31 May Isabel Fisk (1872–1955)
• 32 Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)
• 33 Sophie Treadwell (1885–1970)
• 34 Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
• 35 Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952)
• 36 Lena Ashwell (1872–1957)
• 37 Constance Rourke (1885–1941)
• 38 Cornelia Otis Skinner (1899–1979)
• 39 Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
• 40 Susan Glaspell (1876–1948)
• 41 Hallie Flanagan (1889–1969)
• 42 Joan Littlewood (1914–2002)
• 43 Alice Childress (1916–1994)
• 44 Ann Jellicoe (1927–2017)
• 45 Barbara Ann Teer (1937–2008)
• 46 Judith Malina (1926–2015)
• 47 Rose Yuen Ow (1895–?)
• 48 Marguerite Duras (1914–1996)
• 49 Megan Terry (1932–2023)
• 50 Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002)
• 51 María Irene Fornés (1930–2018)
• 52 Jane Chambers (1937–1983)
• 53 Elfriede Jelinek (b.1946)
• 54 Sue-Ellen Case (b.1942)
• 55 Adrienne Kennedy (b.1931)
• 56 Liz Lochhead (b.1947)
• 57 Constance Congdon (b.1944)
• 58 Elizabeth MacLennan (1938–2015)
• 59 Monstrous Regiment (1975–1993)
• 60 Jill Dolan (b.1957)
• 61 The Divina Project (1989–1998)
• 62 Nehad Selaiha (1945–2017)
• 63 Peggy Phelan (b.1959)
• 64 Suzan-Lori Parks (b.1963)
• 65 Kate Bornstein (b.1948)
• 66 Elin Diamond (b. 1948)
• 67 Hélène Cixous (b.1937)
• 68 Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo (1942–2023)
• 69 Diane Glancy (b.1941)
• 70 Lois Weaver (b.1949)
• 71 Judith Thompson (b.1954)
• 72 Cherríe Moraga (b.1952)
• 73 Amal Allana (b.1947)
• 74 Naomi Wallace (b.1960)
• 75 Mojisola Adebayo (b.1971)
• 76 Lauren Gunderson (b.1982)
• 77 Sarah Ruhl (b.1974)
• 78 Elaine Aston (b.1958)
• 79 Dame Harriet Walter (b.1950)
• 80 Catherine Kodicek (b.1972)
• 81 Spiderwoman Theater (1976–) and Muriel Miguel (b.1937)
• 82 Emma Rice (b.1967)
• 83 Paula Vogel (b.1951)
• 84 Elaine Romero
• 85 Velina Hasu Houston (b.1957)
• 86 Quiara Alegría Hudes (b.1977) and Gabriela Serena Sanchez
• 87 Winsome Pinnock (b.1961)
• 88 Takemoto Koshikô (b.1953)
• 89 Émilie Monnet (b.1979)
• Works Cited
• Index