Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art
- Submitting institution
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The University of Essex
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2803
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- ISBN
- 9781472570628
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art is the product of sustained research over a decade on a massive body of archives (over 3000 hitherto unpublished letters; several thousand documents from V&A London). It is an original, feminist critique of heteronormative canonical theatre histories that regard Craig and her theatre work only in relation to family members Ellen Terry and Edward Gordon Craig. This monograph recentres Craig, newly uncovers her influence on James Joyce and her post-war rehabilitation of George Bernard Shaw’s career, establishes her modernist aesthetic of strategic self-effacement and the lasting legacy of her theatre experimentation and pedagogy.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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