The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage

Chapter 1 General Introduction

Chapter 2 Female Performers in the Greco-Roman World: An Introduction

Chapter 3 The Roman Mimae: Female Performers in Ancient Rome

Chapter 4 Ludism, Gender-Play and Roman Theatricality

Chapter 5 Women and Medieval Drama: Selected Sisters and Worshipful Wives

Chapter 6 The First Italian Actresses, Isabella Andreini and the Commedia dell’Arte

Chapter 7 Elizabeth I and the Dancing Stuart Queens: Female Agency and Subjectivity in Early Modern English Court Drama

Chapter 8 Margaret Cavendish’s Female Fairground Performers

Chapter 9 Women Performers on English Stages 1660–1740

Chapter 10 Eighteenth-Century English Actresses: From Rustic Simplicity to Urban Sophistication

Chapter 11 Late Eighteenth-Century English Actresses and Material Culture

Chapter 12 Performing the Nation State: Female Representation in Nineteenth-Century American Theatre and the American Cultural Imagination

Chapter 13 Death and the Working Woman: Actresses, Illness, and Labour from Rachel to Bernhardt

Chapter 14 Ada Rehan: The Case of the Missing International Star

Chapter 15 Japanese Women on Stage: From Tradition to Modernity

Chapter 16 Leading Ladies on the Modern Greek Stage: Personal and Political Rivalries from Paraskevopoulou and Veroni to Kotopouli, Kyveli and Papadaki

Chapter 17 British Actresses, 1900–1950: Professional Transformations

Chapter 18 Serafima Birman, Sofia Giatsintova, Alla Tarasova and Olga Pyzhova: ‘Second Wave’ Russian and Soviet Actresses, Stanislavsky’s System and the Moscow Art Theatre

Chapter 19 Actress-Entrepreneurs of the Harlem Renaissance / New Negro Era: Anita Bush, Abbie Mitchell, Rose McClendon, Mercedes Gilbert, Venzella Jones

Chapter 20 ‘Bad Girls’ of 1960s–1990s American Performance: Adrian Piper, Karen Finley, and Carolee Schneemann

Chapter 21 Birth, Copulation and Death: Feminist Theatre and Performance Practice Across Four Decades

Chapter 22 Feminist Theatre: Putting Women Centre Stage

Chapter 23 Theatre of Black Women: A Personal Account

Chapter 24 Women and Theatre, Birmingham: The Early Years (1984–1994)

Chapter 25 Jenny Sealey of Graeae in Conversation, February 2018: Gender and Disability

Chapter 26 Women on the Classical Kerala Stage: The Kutiyattam and Kathakali Traditions

Chapter 27 Negotiating Representations of Coloured Women in Post-Apartheid South African Performance

Chapter 28 Great British Dames: Mature Actresses and Their Negotiation of Celebrity in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 29 Feminist Dramaturgy in Practice: Lazarus Theatre Company’s Staging of Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam

Chapter 30 Theatre Inside/Outside Prison: San Vittore Globe Theatre Company, Milan

Chapter 31 Race and the Female Star in Australasian Shakespeare

Chapter 32 Women Playing Shakespeare’s Men: Achieving Equality on the Twenty-First Century British Stage

Chapter 33 Theatre, Education and Embodied Cognition: Young Women in a Changing World

Chapter 34 Trans Women on Stage: Erasure, Resurgence and #notadebate