Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century by Monrós-Gaspar, Laura; Puchal Terol, Victoria;

Short description:

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond. 

Long description:

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings, and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond. Female managers, playwrights, and performers emerge from the archives to forge geographical and temporal “intertheatricalities” with contemporary productions by women who revisit and re-stage the period and with neo-Victorian  fiction written by women and inspired by Victorian stage practices and spectacle. Chapters navigate from Great Britain to Australia, from Japan to the United States, to offer a glimpse of the indisputable influence of women in the theatrical scene of the period. The women who populate this book—Joanna Baillie, Florence Wilson, Ritsuko Mori, Emily Massingberd, Louisa Maria Ann Cremer (Mrs. T. P. Cooke), Minnie Maddern Fiske, Lolita Chakrabarti, Kip Williams, and others—reveal essential histories of nineteenth-century spectacle that hold significant implications for the roles of gender and chronology in theatre and English studies. This book is for postgraduates, researchers, and academics engaged primarily with English Studies, Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, and Women Studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Emptied Spaces

Laura Monrós-Gaspar & Victoria Puchal Terol

PART I.

From the nineteenth into the twentieth century

1. Staging the Invisible: Reclaiming the Silenced Woman in Joanna Baillie’s The Bride

Miriam Borham-Puyal

1. Mrs. T. P. Cooke: A (Forgotten) Lady of Great Accomplishments

Victoria Puchal Terol

1. Staging a Victorian Marriage: Ellen Terry’s Lady Macbeth

Sarah McCarroll

1. Performing Management Through Her Pen: Minnie Madden Fiske as Producer and Activist

Amanda Nelson

1. Beyond Postcolonial Theatre Historiography: British Theatrical Migration and the Eyes of the Japanese Actress

Ayumi Fujioka

1. Emily Caroline Massingberd: Women’s Theatrical Networks at the Pioneer Club omen’s Clubs and Drama: Emily Massingberd at the Pioneer Club

Laura Monrós-Gaspar

PART II.

From the twentieth into the twenty-first century

1. Women and the Nineteenth Century at the National Theatre of London (1963-2018)

Sarai Ramos Cedrés

1. Re-membering the Nineteenth-century English Stage in Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet (2012): A Neo-Victorian Reading

Ana Fernández-Caparrós

1. Nineteenth-Century Caring in Contemporary Biodrama: Acts of Care in The Ballad of Maria Marten and Marys Seacole

Beth Palmer

1. Bruising Encounters: Neo-Victorian Group Narratives by Women Playwrights

Benjamin Poore

1. Two Pictures of Dorian Gray

Victoria Duckett

1. Staging Networked Perspectives and Structures of Care in Barbara Ewing’s The Mesmerist

Rosario Arias-Doblas

1. Powerful Women and Assembled Bodily Strength in Neo-Victorian Novels of Spectacle

Lin Pettersson

1. Reframing Lizzie: The Many Afterlives of Elizabeth Siddal in Neo-Victorian Culture

Cristina Santaemilia