Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage The Pioneer Players 1911-1925 [Hardcover]

The innovative work of The Pioneer Players, a London-based theatre society founded in 1911 by Edith Craig, is explored here for the first time, drawing on original archive research and taking an interdisciplinary approach to women's involvement in theatre during the British women's suffrage movement. This book tests the claim that the Pioneer Players was a women's theatre and investigates in a literary context the Pioneer Players' relationship to the women's suffrage movement, to feminism and to women's writing.Acknowledgements List of Plates Introducing the Pioneer Players The Costs of a Free Theatre Propaganda and the Feminist Play of Ideas Pioneers Perform Politics Outside Marriage Working Women The Luck of War Towards an Art Theatre On The Verge Appendices Bibliography Index

'This volume represents an illuminating and eminently worthwhile endeavour.' - Jan McDonald, University of Glasgow, Theatre Research International

KATHARINE COCKIN is Lecturer in English at the University of Hull. She is the author of Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives.