Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond. Female managers, playwrights and performers emerge from the archives to forge geographical and temporal ‘intertheatricalities’ with contemporary productions by women who revisit and re-stage the period and with neo