Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand
Series: Elements in Women Theatre Makers;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 3 April 2025
- ISBN 9781009559331
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages72 pages
- Size 229x152x4 mm
- Weight 122 g
- Language English 642
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Short description:
Why, in 1914, at sixty-six, did Ellen Terry decide to tour her Shakespeare lectures to Australia and New Zealand?
MoreLong description:
While the life and career of Ellen Terry (1847-1928) have attracted decades of attention from theatre historians and feminist biographers, one chapter remains hidden: Terry's tour of her solo Shakespeare lectures to Australia and New Zealand in 1914. This bold venture, made at the age of sixty-six, has been interpreted as an indication of Terry's declining physical andmental health following her 1906 Jubilee. Yet Terry claimed that 'while in Australia, although a woman, I am permitted to be a person', testifying affinity with the geopolitical region in which women had already achieved the right to vote in federal elections and to run for parliament. This Element undertakes the first comprehensive examination of the 1914 tour to reveal Terry's professional agency, her creative autonomy, her skilful navigation of ageist sexism, her eager receptivity to new natural environments, and her friendship with international opera star, Nellie Melba.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction; 1. 'Not all there': age and distance; 2. 'Alone with Shakespeare'; 3. 'Permitted to be a person': Terry and women's suffrage; 4. 'Australia is a garden': Terry and Melba; Bibliography.
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