Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: The Pioneer Players 1911-1925

by Katharine Cockin and Jo Campling

The innovative work of the Pioneer Players, a London-based theater society founded in 1911 by Edith Craig, is explored here for the first time, drawing on original archive research and taking an interdisciplinary approach to women's involvement in theater during British women's suffrage movement. This book tests the claim that the Pioneer Players was a "women's theater," and investigates in a literary context the Pioneer Players' relationships to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333686969
• ISBN13: 9780333686966
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"