Tracy C. Davis. Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform
September 2024
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Journal article
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Modern Drama
3604 Performing Arts, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Book Review: Victorian Touring Actresses: Crossing Boundaries and Negotiating the Cultural Landscape by Janice Norwood
May 2024
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Journal article
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Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Is She A Woman?: Alternative Critical Frameworks for Understanding Cross-Dressing and Cross-Gender Casting on the Victorian Stage
May 2023
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Journal article
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Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film
Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell
March 2021
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Scholarly edition
“A class act: Constance Lytton and the political, literary and dramatic dynamics of suffrage prison writings”
March 2019
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Journal article
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Feminist Modernist Studies
In 1910 suffragette Lady Constance Lytton disguised herself as a working-class seamstress, Jane Warton. Her cross-class masquerade revealed the snobbery and injustice of prison authorities’ treatment of suffragettes: as Lady Constance Lytton she was diagnosed with a weak heart and placed in the hospital wing, but as Jane Warton she was put in the Third Division and force-fed until her health gave out. Lytton’s memoir, Prisons and Prisoners. Some personal experiences. By Constance Lytton and Jane Warton, Spinster became one of the most celebrated suffrage texts. This article reveals the literary and political sophistication of Lytton’s writings, and argues that her innovative use of metaphor and her deployment of contemporary dramatic techniques and theories are crucial to appreciating the power and influence of her memoir. Drawing on contemporary feminist and suffrage theater and using the relation between actor and role as a framework for her account of her disguise and imprisonment, Lytton’s memoir is both a skillful feminist negotiation of class tensions within the suffrage movement, and an example of how suffrage narratives can expand the extant canon of modernist writing.
Oscar Wilde, Dion Boucicault and the pragmatics of being Irish:Fashioning a new brand of modern Irish Celt
May 2017
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Journal article
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English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
This article makes the case that Wilde's engagement with his Irish national identity was sustained. Apparent inconsistencies have led some critics to challenge the appropriateness of identifying Wilde as an Irish writer. Wilde's strategies are similar to those of Dion Boucicault, the most successful Irish playwright of the 1860s and 1870s. The influence of Boucicault in helping Wilde to shape his professional career and develop his stagecraft illuminates not only Wilde's construction of a modern brand of Irish Celt, but also how both writers expressed such a conception on stage. Wilde and Boucicault were not purists in their conception and use of the term "Irish," nor indeed when it came to the role of professional playwright. They repudiated the stereotype of Ireland as a backward land; their alternative was not "ancient idealism" but a modern pragmatism that located them at the heart of an evolving international marketplace.
Representing Work
October 2016
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Chapter
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Late Victorian into Modern
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
What was the ‘New Drama’?
October 2016
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Chapter
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Late Victorian into Modern
3604 Performing Arts, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
Women’s suffrage and theatricality
February 2016
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Chapter
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"Politics, performance and popular culture"
Women’s Suffrage and Theatricality: The Womanly Woman, the Real Girl, and the Woman of the Street
February 2016
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Chapter
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Politics, Performance and Popular Culture
‘It’s all symbiosis’: Peter Hall Directing Beckett
January 2016
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Chapter
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Staging Beckett in Great Britain
The Court Theatre
October 2015
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Chapter
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George Bernard Shaw in Context
3604 Performing Arts, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
From Sex-war to Factory Floor: Theatrical Depictions of Women’s Work during the First World War
August 2015
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Chapter
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British Theatre and the Great War, 1914–1919: New Perspectives
Reception of Wilde's plays
January 2013
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Chapter
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Oscar Wilde in Context
Acts of Desire: Women and Sexuality on Stage, 1800-1930
January 2012
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Book
Donald Winnicott Today
January 2012
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Chapter
DWW’s notes for the Vienna Congress 1971: A consideration of Winnicott’s theory of aggression and an interpretation of the clinical implications
January 2012
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Chapter
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Donald Winnicott Today
Performance and Identity in the Plays of Oscar Wilde
January 2011
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Chapter
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Oscar Wilde
Approaches to Teaching Wilde’s Plays
January 2009
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Chapter
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Approaches to teaching Oscar Wilde
Approaches to Teaching Wilde’s Plays
January 2008
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Chapter
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde
Bringing out the Acid: Noël Coward, Harold Pinter, Ivy Compton-Burnett and the Uses of Camp
January 2008
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Journal article
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Modern Drama: world drama from 1850 to the present
Private Lives and Public Spaces: Reputation, Celebrity and the Late Victorian Actress
January 2005
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Chapter
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Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660–2000
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies, 36 Creative Arts and Writing
The Fallen Woman on Stage: Maidens, Magdalens and the Emancipated Female
January 2004
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Chapter
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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Drama
Corruption of the Blood and Degeneration of the Race: Dracula and Policing the Borders of Gender
January 2002
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Chapter
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Dracula
George Bernard Shaw
January 1998
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Chapter
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British Reform Writers, 1880-1914, Dictionary of Literary Biography
Revising Wilde: Society and subversion in the plays of Oscar Wilde
January 1997
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Book
Co-organizer: Symposium on Irish Theatre and Cultural Identity
Conference paper
Realizing the Truth: Narrative art and theatrical tableaux