Women, Modernism, and Performance in Bloomington, MN

This interdisciplinary study considers a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the position of women within—and in relation to—modern theatre history. Penny Farfan identifies the different objectives, strategies, possibilities, and limitations of feminist-modernist performance practice. She focuses on Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Robins, Ellen Terry, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Edith Craig, Radclyffe Hall, and Isadora Duncan.