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The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism
The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers.
Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women’s writing within, and also reframes the field’s male-defined and male-dominated traditions. Its collection of documents demonstrates women’s consistent and wide-ranging engagement with writing about theatre and performance and offers a more expansive understanding of the forms and locations of such theoretical and critical writing, dealing with materials that often lie outside established production and publication venues. This alternative tradition of theatre writing that emerges allows contemporary readers to form new ways of conceptualizing the field, bringing to the fore a long-neglected, vibrant, intelligent, deeply informed, and expanded canon that generates a new era of scholarship, learning, and artistry.
The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatrical Theory and Dramatic Criticism is an important intervention into the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, Literary Studies, and Cultural History, while adding new dimensions to Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
1. FIVE MEDIEVAL WOMEN: St. Perpetua (c. 185–203), Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179), Hadewijch (c. 1200–1250), Katherine Sutton (d. 1376), Margery Kempe (c. 1373–1438)
Andrew Galloway
2. HROTSVIT OF GANDERSHEIM (c. 935–1002)
Andrew Galloway
3. MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH (c.1623–1673)
Sujata Iyengar and Mikaela Warner
4. APHRA BEHN (1640–1689)
Joseph Roach
5. ANNE FINCH (1661–1720)
Christina Black
6. SUSANNA CENTLIVRE (c. 1669–1723)
Gillian Skinner
7. CHARLOTTE LENNOX (1729–1804)
Elizabeth Kraft
8. CHARLOTTE CHARKE (1713–1760)
Molly Marotta
9. FRANCES BURNEY (1752–1840)
Serena Baiesi
10. HANNAH COWLEY (1743–1809)
Melinda C. Finberg and Angela Escott
11. LADY EGLANTINE WALLACE (c. 1754–1803)
Lilla Maria Crisafulli
12. SALLY SIDDONS (1775–1803)
Laura Engel
13. ELIZABETH INCHBALD (1753–1821)
Lisa A. Freeman
14. JOANNA BAILLIE (1762–1851)
Thomas C. Crochunis
15. FELICIA HEMANS (1793–1835)
Diego Saglia
16. ADELAIDE O’KEEFFE (1776–1865)
Donelle Ruwe
17. SARAH SIDDONS (1755–1831)
Daniel O’Quinn
18. “ANONYMOUS”
Marjean D. Purinton
19. MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1787–1855)
Serena Baiesi
20. AMELIA CHESSON (1833–1902)
Tracy C. Davis
21. FRANCES A. KEMBLE (1809–1893)
Catherine Burroughs
22. OLIVE LOGAN (1839–1909)
Merritt Denman Popp
23. MICHAEL FIELD [KATHARINE HARRIS BRADLEY (1846–1914) AND EDITH EMMA COOPER (1861–1913)]
Jill R. Ehnenn
24. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860–1935)
Andrew Tolle
25. PHYLLIS ROBBINS (1883–1972)
Kim Marra
26. LADY AUGUSTA GREGORY (1852–1932)
Marjorie Howes
27. EDITH CRAIG (1869–1947)
Katharine Cockin
28. CHRISTOPHER ST. JOHN (1871–1960)
Lesley Ferris
29. BINODINI DASI (1862–1941)
Aparna Dharwadker
30. FLORENCE KIPER (1886–1976)
Sharon Friedman
31. MAY ISABEL FISK (1872–1955)
Jennifer Schmidt
32. DJUNA BARNES (1892–1982)
Nick Salvato
33. SOPHIE TREADWELL (1885–1970)
Jerry Dickey
34. VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941)
Shilo McGiff
35. ELIZABETH ROBINS (1862–1952)
Joanne Gates
36. LENA ASHWELL (1872–1957)
Maggie Gale
37. CONSTANCE ROURKE (1885–1941)
Charlotte M. Canning
38. CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER (1899–1979)
Jennifer Schmidt
39. GERTRUDE STEIN (1874–1946)
Scott W. Klein
40. SUSAN GLASPELL (1876–1948)
J. Ellen Gainor and Elizabeth A. Osborne
41. HALLIE FLANAGAN (1889–1969)
Elizabeth A. Osborne
42. JOAN LITTLEWOOD (1914–2002)
Fatine Bahar Karlidağ
43. ALICE CHILDRESS (1916–1994)
Meenakashi Ponnuswami
44. ANN JELLICOE (1927–2017)
Kate Pierson
45. BARBARA ANN TEER (1937–2008)
La Donna L. Forsgren
46. JUDITH MALINA (1926–2015)
Kate Bredeson
47. ROSE YUEN OW (1895–?)
Krystyn Moon
48. MARGUERITE DURAS (1914–1996)
Shelley Orr
49. MEGAN TERRY (1932–2023)
Maya Roth
50. DOROTHY HEWETT (1923–2002)
Aoise Stratford
51. MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS (1930–2018)
Linda Ben-Zvi
52. JANE CHAMBERS (1937–1983)
Sara Warner
53. ELFRIEDE JELINEK (b.1946)
Anke Charton
54. SUE-ELLEN CASE (b.1942)
Penny Farfan
55. ADRIENNE KENNEDY (b.1931)
Maya E. Roth
56. LIZ LOCHHEAD (b.1947)
Aoise Stratford
57. CONSTANCE CONGDON (b.1944)
Ryan Platt
58. ELIZABETH MACLENNAN (1938–2015)
Gioia Angeletti
59. MONSTROUS REGIMENT (1975–1993)
Elaine Aston
60. JILL DOLAN (b.1957)
Jessica Del Vecchio
61. THE DIVINA PROJECT (1989–1998)
Juliet Guzzetta
62. NEHAD SELAIHA (1945–2017)
Marvin Carlson
63. PEGGY PHELAN (b.1959)
Daniel Sack
64. SUZAN-LORI PARKS (b.1963)
Kristen Wright
65. KATE BORNSTEIN (b.1948)
Kara Raphaeli
66. ELIN DIAMOND (b. 1948)
Jen-Scott Mobley
67. HÉLÈNE CIXOUS (b.1937)
Rachel Morris Watson
68. MĨCERE GĨTHAE MŨGO (1942–2023)
Kellen Hoxworth
69. DIANE GLANCY (b.1941)
Birgit Däwes
70. LOIS WEAVER (b.1949)
Benjamin Gillespie
71. JUDITH THOMPSON (b.1954)
Erica Stevens Abbitt
72. CHERRÍE MORAGA (b.1952)
Lindsay Cummings
73. AMAL ALLANA (b.1947)
Aparna Dharwadker
74. NAOMI WALLACE (b.1960)
Lindsay B. Cummings
75. MOJISOLA ADEBAYO (b.1971)
Kellen Hoxworth
76. LAUREN GUNDERSON (b.1982)
Noelia Hernando-Real
77. SARAH RUHL (b.1974)
Amy Muse
78. ELAINE ASTON (b.1958)
Geraldine Harris
79. DAME HARRIET WALTER (b.1950)
Rosemary Malague
80. CATHERINE KODICEK (b.1972)
Katherine Gurnos-Davies
81. SPIDERWOMAN THEATER (1976–) AND MURIEL MIGUEL (b.1937)
Lilian Mengesha
82. EMMA RICE (b.1967)
Siouxsie Easter
83. PAULA VOGEL (b.1951)
Meghan Brodie
84. ELAINE ROMERO
Jimmy A. Noriega
85. VELINA HASU HOUSTON (b.1957)
Eunha Na
86. QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES (b.1977) and GABRIELA SERENA SANCHEZ
J. Ellen Gainor
87. WINSOME PINNOCK (b.1961)
Gabriele Griffin
88. TAKEMOTO KOSHIKÔ (b.1953)
Maki Isaka
89. ÉMILIE MONNET (b.1979)
Lindsay LaChance
Biography
Catherine Burroughs is Professor Emerita of English at Wells College, Courtesy Professor of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University, and a member of Actors’ Equity Association.
J. Ellen Gainor is Professor of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University.
