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Article: Women, Modernism, and Performance.(Book review)
- Article from:
- Theatre History Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Women, Modernism, and Performance. By Penny Farfan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 173 pp. 45.00 [pounds sterling] cloth.
In Women, Modernism, and Performance, Penny Farfan argues that women's performance and writing about performance significantly helped to shape modernist writing and twentieth-century theatre. She examines the work, theory, and reception of several women linked by chains of influence and acquaintance: primarily, Elizabeth Robins, Ellen Terry, and Virginia Woolf.
Woolf's two reviews of Chekhov and Shakespeare productions present performance as a means to challenge "accepted readings of familiar texts and to bring ...