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- Offers a rare insight into a little-explored aspect of Italian women's theatre
- Draws on first hand accounts and interviews to bring the world of amateur women's theatre to life
- Provides an original contribution to the canon on Italian theatre history
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores an important moment in Italian women’s theatre and cultural history: plays written for all-women casts between 1946 and the mid-1960s, authored for the most part by women and performed exclusively by women. Because they featured only female roles, they concentrated on aspects of specifically women’s experience, be it their spirituality, their future lives as wives and mothers, their present lives as workers or students, or their relationships with friends, sisters and mothers. Most often performed in a Catholic environment, they were meant to both entertain and educate, reflecting the specific issues that both performers and spectators had to confront in the years between the end of the war and the beginning of the economic miracle.
Drawing on material never before researched, Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy: A Stage of Their Own recovers the life and works of forgotten women playwrights while also discussing the role models that educational theatre offered to the young Italian women coming of age in the post-war years.
Reviews
Translated from Italian:
“For the originality of the sources considered, the relevance of its topic and the methodological precision of its analysis, Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy offers a contribution of great interest for the social and cultural history of Italy in the post-war years, as well as for theatre studies and gender studies.” (Laetitia Dumont-Lewi, Spunti e ricerche, Vol. 32, 2017)
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Auckland , Auckland, New Zealand
Daniela Cavallaro
About the author
Daniela Cavallaro is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where she teaches courses in Italian language, fiction, and drama. She has published in the fields of Italian fiction, film and theatre; women’s revision of the classics; and South Pacific literature. Her 2011 book Italian Women’s Theatre 1930-1960: An Anthology of Plays recovered the life and works of four Italian women playwrights.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Educational Theatre for Women in Post-World War II Italy
Book Subtitle: A Stage of Their Own
Authors: Daniela Cavallaro
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95096-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95095-9Published: 28 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95726-2Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95096-6Published: 15 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 265
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theatre History, History of Italy, Religion and Society, Media and Communication, European Culture