Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: The Pioneer Players 1911-1925

by K. Cockin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333686966
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/01/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	239
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher

Cockin (English U. of Hull) has written a biography of Edith Craig (1869-1947), who founded the London-based theater society Pioneer Players in 1911. Here she draws on original archival research and takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore women's involvement in theater during the British women's suffrage movement. She tests the claim that the Players was a women's theater, and investigates in a literary context its relationship to the movement and to feminism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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