By: Maggie B. Gale (Editor), Gilli Bush-Bailey (Editor)

Hardcover

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This groundbreaking anthology, part of the Women, Theatre and Performance series, brings together an extraordinary mix of one-act and full length plays and solo performance texts written by women. Included in the volume are texts by Beatrice Herford, Ruth Draper, Zora Neale Hurston, and G.B. Stern, originally performed across commercial and amateur theaters in Britain and America. Some of the plays have remained unpublished since their original performance - Georgina Weldon's Not Alone, Clothilde Graves' Mother of Three, Rachel Crother's Ourselves, and Marie Stope's Our Ostriches. Others are anthologized here alongside plays with which they connect aesthetically and historically, for example, Edith Lyttelton's Warp and Woof, Elizabeth Robins' Votes for Women, Elizabeth Baker's Edith, Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, and Aimée Stuarts' Nine Till Six.

The volume, for students and scholars, provides an accessible collection of texts exemplifying the range and breadth of women's theater writing from the 1880s to the early decades of the twentieth century.

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
PlaysEdited with an Overview and Introduction
Not Alone (1886)
A Mother of Three (1896)
Warp and Woof (1904)
Votes for Women (1907)
Edith (1912)
Ourselves (1913)
Our Ostriches (1923)
Machinal (1928)
Nine Till Six (1930)
Lawing and Jawing and Poker (1931)
The Man Who Pays The Piper (1931)
MonologuesEdited with an Introduction by Gilli Bush-Bailey
'The Art of Giving a Monologue' (Date of Publication: 1914)
At the Theatre (Date of Publication: 1907)
At the Opticians (Date of Publication: 1927)
Morris The Home-Coming of Jack O'Neill (Date of Publication: 1913)
Cheering up Maria (Date of Publication: 1927)
from Live at the Greek Theatre2.6 Ruth Draper Doctors and Diets (Date of Publication: 1960)
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ISBN: 9780719082030
ISBN-10: 071908203X
Series: Women, Theatre and Performance
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 592
Published: 15th May 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 4.1
Weight (kg): 1.111