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Women in the theater

Here are entered works discussing all aspects of women's involvement in the theater. Works on women as a theme in literature, including women in drama from a literary point of view, are entered under Women in literature.

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• Theater

• Women in the theater -- Canada
• Actresses
• Women dramatists

• Mimic Life, or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Series of Narratives (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at MOA)

• Nightwood Theatre: A Woman's Work Is Always Done (2010), by Shelley Scott (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Hollywood Undressed: Observations of Sylvia as Noted by Her Secretary (New York: Brentano's, 1931), contrib. by Sylvia of Hollywood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadows of the Stage (New York and London: Macmillan, 1893), by William Winter (Gutenberg text)

• Mimic Life, or, Before and Behind the Curtain: A Series of Narratives (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (page images at MOA)

• An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies For Image Making (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Laura Engel (PDF at Ohio State)

• Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne
  • Volume I: multiple foprmats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust

• The "Mind the Paint" Girl (comedy in 4 acts), by Arthur Wing Pinero (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML with music, and page images)

• The Half Sisters: A Tale (cheap edition; London: Chapman and Hall, 1854), by Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tragic Muse (based on the 1-volume 1891 edition, with commentary), by Henry James, ed. by Adrian Dover (HTML at the Ladder)
• The Tragic Muse (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Mistress Nell Gwyn: A Novel (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1926), by Marjorie Bowen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Phantom Herd (1916), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text)

• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)

• An American Comedy (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1928), by Harold Lloyd and Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)

• Silver Screen (partial serial archives)

• Behind the Screen (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), by Samuel Goldwyn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Filmbulletin (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Talking Screen (full serial archives)
• Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (partial serial archives)

• Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Cynthia Willett and Julie A. Willett (HTML and PDF with commentary at umn.edu)

• The Female Wits (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1967), ed. by Lucyle Hook (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Plays, Movies, and Critics (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), ed. by Jody McAuliffe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Drama, by Henry Irving (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Popular Theatre (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1918), by George Jean Nathan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1910), by Clayton Meeker Hamilton (Gutenberg text)
• A Book About the Theater (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Brander Matthews (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Children's Educational Theatre (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1901), by Alice Minnie Herts Heniger (page images at Google; US access only)
• How's Your Second Act? (New York: P. Goodman Co., 1918), by Arthur Hopkins, contrib. by George Jean Nathan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Merry-Go-Round (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1918), by Carl Van Vechten (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Plays, Acting and Music: A Book of Theory (revised edition; London: Constable and Co., 1909), by Arthur Symons (Gutenberg text)
• Through the Fourth Wall (New York: Brentano's; London: Chapman and Hall, 1922), by W. A. Darlington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Over the Footlights (and other fancies; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Stephen Leacock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Quizziology of the British Drama (London: Pub. at the Punch Office, 1846), by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Stage-Land, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg text)
• Stage-Land (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1906), by Jerome K. Jerome, illust. by Bernard Partridge (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies #19; Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, c1975), ed. by J. I. Crump and William P. Malm (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• A Complete History of the English Stage (5 volumes; London: Printed for the author, ca. 1800), by Charles Dibdin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Designs by Inigo Jones for Masques and Plays at Court: A Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings for Scenery and Costumes Mainly in the Collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K. G. (Oxford: Printed for the Walpole and Malone Societies at the University Press, 1924), by Inigo Jones, ed. by Percy Simpson and C. F. Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• No Great Magic (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1963), by Fritz Leiber (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Back to Lilac Land: A Theatrical Novel (London: Greening and Co, 1902), by C. Ranger Gull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Painted Scene, and Other Stories of the Theater (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1916), by Henry Kitchell Webster, illust. by Arthur William Brown and Herman Pfeifer (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Sorrows of a Show Girl: A Story of the Great "White Way" (1908), by Kenneth McGaffey (Gutenberg text)
• Broadway Interlude (New York: Payson and Clarke, 1929), by Achmed Abdullah and Faith Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Adam: A Story of Adventure (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1913), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Without the Limelight: Theatrical Life As It Is (London: Chatto and Windus, 1900), by George R. Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tragic Muse (based on the 1-volume 1891 edition, with commentary), by Henry James, ed. by Adrian Dover (HTML at the Ladder)
• The Tragic Muse (London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)

• Weltkrieg und Schaubühne (Deutsche Erneuerung bd. 1, in German; Munich: J. F. Lehmann, 1916), by Artur Dinter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Our Stage and its Critics (1910), by Edward Fordham Spence (Gutenberg text)
• From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith, Written by Himself (New York and London: J. Lane; Toronto: Bell and Cockborn, 1913), by Weedon Grossmith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

More items available under broader and related terms at left.