Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism

<p><em>The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism</em> is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. </p><p>Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays the collection situates women’s writing within and also reframes the field’s male-defined and male-dominated traditions. Its collection of documents demonstrates women’s consistent and wide-ranging engagement with writing about theatre and performance and offers a more expansive understanding of the forms and locations of such theoretical and critical writing dealing with materials that often lie outside established production and publication venues. This alternative tradition of theatre writing that emerges allows contemporary readers to form new ways of conceptualizing the field bringing to the fore a long-neglected vibrant intelligent deeply informed and expanded canon that generates a new era of scholarship learning and artistry. </p><p><em>The Routledge Anthology of Women's Theatrical Theory and Dramatic Criticism</em> is an important intervention into the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies Literary Studies and Cultural History while adding new dimensions to Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies.</p>