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Queering the Stage: Critical Displacement in the Theater of Else Lasker-Schuler and Mae West

Queering the Stage: Critical Displacement in the Theater of Else Lasker-Schuler and Mae West : CRITICAL DISPLACEMENT IN THE THEATER OF ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER AND MAE WEST Gail Finney Women have participated in the creation of theater in the West at least since the tenth-century Saxon noblewoman Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim wrote a half dozen religious dramas in Latin while overseeing the regional convent. Later examples, to mention only a few, include the highly successful Aphra Behn in seventeenth-century England, the British Susanna Centlivre and Hannah Cowley in the eighteenth-century, Friederike Caroline Neuber and Luise Gottsched in eighteenth-century Germany, and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writing in the nineteenth-century in what was to become Austria. But in the case of female playwrights, the challenges typically associated with the transition from page to stage were compounded by their gender, since they generally lacked the social authority and economic power of men. Publishing their plays was often even more difficult, since unreliable or non-existent copyright laws made their work easier for others to pirate and stage once it had been circulated in print. Hence much of what women created for the stage in the past has been lost or exists in unstable form, and the majority of European and American women writing for the stage before 1900 have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Studies Penn State University Press

Queering the Stage: Critical Displacement in the Theater of Else Lasker-Schuler and Mae West

Finney, Gail
Comparative Literature Studies , Volume 40 (1) – Jan 23, 2003
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: CRITICAL DISPLACEMENT IN THE THEATER OF ELSE LASKER-SCHÜLER AND MAE WEST Gail Finney Women have participated in the creation of theater in the West at least since the tenth-century Saxon noblewoman Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim wrote a half dozen religious dramas in Latin while overseeing the regional convent. Later examples, to mention only a few, include the highly successful Aphra Behn in seventeenth-century England, the British Susanna Centlivre and Hannah Cowley in the eighteenth-century, Friederike Caroline Neuber and Luise Gottsched in eighteenth-century Germany, and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writing in the nineteenth-century in what was to become Austria. But in the case of female playwrights, the challenges typically associated with the transition from page to stage were compounded by their gender, since they generally lacked the social authority and economic power of men. Publishing their plays was often even more difficult, since unreliable or non-existent copyright laws made their work easier for others to pirate and stage once it had been circulated in print. Hence much of what women created for the stage in the past has been lost or exists in unstable form, and the majority of European and American women writing for the stage before 1900 have

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Comparative Literature Studies – Penn State University Press

Published: Jan 23, 2003

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