The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage

1. General Introduction; Jan Sewell and Clare Smout.- 2. Female Performers in the Greco-Roman World: An Introduction; Anne Duncan.- 3. The Roman Mimae: Female Performers in Ancient Rome; Anne Duncan.- 4. Ludism, Gender-Play and Roman Theatricality; Clare Foster.- 5. Women and Medieval Drama: Selected Sisters and Worshipful Wives; Sue Niebrzydowski.- 6. The First Italian Actresses, Isabella Andreini and the Commedia dell'Arte; Margaret Rose.- 7. Elizabeth I and the Dancing Stuart Queens: Female Agency and Subjectivity in Early Modern English Court Drama; Catherine Clifford.- 8. Margaret Cavendish's Female Fairground Performers; M. A. Katritzky.- 9. Women Performers on English Stages 1660-1740; Jane Milling.- 10. Eighteenth-Century English Actresses: From Rustic Simplicity to Urban Sophistication; Laura J. Rosenthal.- 11. Late Eighteenth-Century English Actresses and Material Culture; Laura Engel.- 12. Performing the Nation State: Female Representation in Nineteenth-Century American Theatre and the American Cultural Imagination; Pam Cobrin.- 13. Death and the Working Woman: Actresses, Illness, and Labour from Rachel to Bernhardt; Roberta Barker.- 14. Ada Rehan: The Case of the Missing International Star; Lezlie C. Cross.- 15. Japanese Women on Stage: From Tradition to Modernity; Yamanashi Makiko.- 16. Leading Ladies on the Modern Greek Stage: Personal and Political Rivalries from Paraskevopoulou and Veroni to Kotopouli, Kyveli and Papadaki; Xenia Georgopoulou.- 17. British Actresses, 1900-1950: Professional Transformations; Maggie B. Gale.- 18. Serafima Birman, Sofia Giatsintova, Alla Tarasova and Olga Pyzhova: 'Second Wave' Russian and Soviet Actresses, Stanislavsky's System and the Moscow Art Theatre; Maria Ignatieva and Rose Whyman.- 19. Actress-Entrepreneurs of the Harlem Renaissance / New Negro Era: Anita Bush, Abbie Mitchell, Rose McClendon, Mercedes Gilbert, Venzella Jones; Cheryl Black.- 20. 'Bad Girls' of 1960s-1990s American Performance: Adrian Piper, Karen Finley and Carolee Schneemann; Dorothy Chansky.- 21. Birth, Copulation and Death: Feminist Theatre and Performance Practice across Four Decades; Anna Furse.- 22. Feminist Theatre: Putting Women Centre Stage; Sue Parrish.- 23. Theatre of Black Women: A Personal Account; Bernardine Evaristo.- 24. Women and Theatre, Birmingham: The Early Years (1984-1994); Polly Wright, with Jo Broadwood and Janice Connolly.- 25. Jenny Sealey of Graeae in Conversation with Clare Smout, February 2018: Gender and Disability; Jenny Sealey, with Clare Smout.- 26. Women on the Classical Kerala Stage: The Kutiyattam and Kathakali Traditions; Diane Daugherty.- 27. Negotiating Representations of Coloured Women in Post-Apartheid South African Performance; Amy Jephta.- 28. Great British Dames: Mature Actresses and their Negotiation of Celebrity in the Twenty-First Century; Mary Luckhurst.- 29. Feminist Dramaturgy in Practice: Lazarus Theatre Company's Staging of Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam; Sara Reimers and Elizabeth Schafer.- 30. Theatre Inside/Outside Prison: San Vittore Globe Theatre Company, Milan; Susan Marshall.- 31. Australasian Shakespeare: Race and the Female Star; Anna Kamaralli.- 32. Women Playing Shakespeare's Men: Achieving Equality on the Twenty-First Century British Stage; Jami Rogers.- 33. Theatre, Education and Embodied Cognition: Young Women in a Changing World; Tracy Irish.- 34. Trans Women on Stage: Erasure, Resurgence and #notadebate; Emma Frankland.