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Reconstructing the Sub-canonical: Women Playwrights in the Suffrage Era.

Autoři: Smažilová Petra

Rok: 2013

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Reconstructing the Sub-canonical: Women Playwrights in the Suffrage Era.	The presentation built on the idea of commentators who, as Susan Carlson and Kerry Powell summarised, have noted that "the forces allied in the fight for the vote made the campaign theatrical and conversely made the theatre political" (246). The Edwardian period enriched the British dramatic landscape with female voices that attempted to provide a corrective view of the depiction of women on the stage. While the pro-vote plays with their overtly political message always presented the unequivocal solution of granting the vote for women, the works dealing with other issues of female political and social victimisation did not show such an easy resolution. The presentation focused on Elizabeth Robins´ influential three-act Votes for Women! which reconsidered not only Ibsen´s Nora, who in her process of emancipation decided to abandon her child, but also the figure of melodramatic woman-with-a-past who had traditionally died prematurely. The play also promoted the militant strategies of women who were actively involved in the suffrage movement and influenced other pro-vote plays. Carlson, Susan, and Kerry Powell. "Reimagining the Theatre: Women Playwrights of the Victorian and Edwardian Period." In Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre, edited by Kerry Powell, 237-256. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.	Elizabeth Robins; Ibsenite actresses; women playwrights in the suffrage era