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Stage Rights!: The Actresses' Franchise League, Activism and Politics 1908-58

Stage Rights!: The Actresses' Franchise League, Activism and Politics 1908-58

Paxton, Naomi

Hardcover

Series: Women, Theatre and Performance

PhilosophyBiographies GeneralTheater History

ISBN10: 152611478X
ISBN13: 9781526114785
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Apr 11 2018
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Stage rights! explores the work and legacy of the first feminist political theatre group of the twentieth century, the Actresses' Franchise League. Formed in 1908 to support the suffrage movement through theatre, the League and its membership opened up new roles for women on stage and off, challenged stereotypes of suffragists and actresses, created new work inspired by the movement and was an integral part of the performative propaganda of the campaign. Introducing new archival material to both suffrage and theatre histories, this book is the first to focus in detail on the Actresses' Franchise League, its membership and its work. The volume is formulated as a historiographically innovative critical biography of the organisation over the fifty years of its activities, and invites a total reassessment of the League within the accepted narratives of the development of political theatre in the UK.

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