Women, Modernism, and Performance [Paperback]

In this 2004 book, Penny Farfan examines the role of women in the history of modernist theatre.Women, Modernism, and Performance is an interdisciplinary study that considers a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the position of women within--and in relation to - modern theatre history. Focusing on Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Robins, Ellen Terry, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Edith Craig, Radclyffe Hall, and Isadora Duncan, Penny Farfan identifies the different objectives, strategies, possibilities, and limitations of feminist-modernist performance practice and suggests how the artists in question functioned complementarily to transform the representation of gender in art and life.Women, Modernism, and Performance is an interdisciplinary study that considers a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the position of women within--and in relation to - modern theatre history. Focusing on Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Robins, Ellen Terry, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Edith Craig, Radclyffe Hall, and Isadora Duncan, Penny Farfan identifies the different objectives, strategies, possibilities, and limitations of feminist-modernist performance practice and suggests how the artists in question functioned complementarily to transform the representation of gender in art and life.This interdisciplinary study considers a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the position of women within--and in relation to--modern theatre history. Penny Farfan identifies the different objectives, strategies, possibilities, and limitations of feminist-modernist performance practice. She focuses on Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Robins, Ellen Terry, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Edith Craig, Radclyffe Hall, and Isadora Duncan.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 lG