The initial phase of women's drama in Canada coincides with the first wave of 19th-century Canadian feminism and the Canadian women's reform movement. At the time, a variety of women wrote and staged plays that grew out of their commitment to the political, ideological and social context of the movement. The 'Mock Parliament,' a form of theatrical parody in which men's and women's roles are reversed, was collectively created by different groups of suffragists in Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. This article attempts to recuperate these works for a history of Canadian feminist theatre. It will argue that the 'dual' conservative and liberal ideology of the suffrage movement informs all aspects of the Mock Parliament. On the on...
This dissertation investigates the links between social and political life in Canada at the close of...
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Catherine Scott’s paper travels beyond European spaces to lead to the scene of Quebec Women’s theatr...
Are humour and laughter gender-specific? The simple answer, like most everything that is ideological...
This thesis investigates the works of the London-based suffrage theatre group, the Actresses' Franch...
The period 1966-1977 saw the emergence of both the Canadian feminist movement and a new Canadian dra...
In the context of the women’s movement at the turn of the 20th century and the campaign for the vote...
Canadian modernist critics have tended to denigrate the works of nineteenth-century closet dramatist...
My dissertation examines how Canadian revisionist plays adapt popular narratives—national histories,...
A brief survey of political theatre in French Canada to Confederation, in its rapid evolution from t...
An analysis of the parallel development of political theatre in English and French in Canada. In bot...
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it takes to make feminist theatre now. When I was a gra...
This study examines the impact of elected women in Canada on patterns and processes of parliamentary...
This dissertation examines the print discourse of the Canadian women's suffrage movement from the 18...
This study investigates the representation of Aboriginal womanhood in Aboriginal women’s theatre in ...
This dissertation investigates the links between social and political life in Canada at the close of...
History paints a bleak picture of Ontario women's lack of electoral success after 1919, the year wom...
Catherine Scott’s paper travels beyond European spaces to lead to the scene of Quebec Women’s theatr...
Are humour and laughter gender-specific? The simple answer, like most everything that is ideological...
This thesis investigates the works of the London-based suffrage theatre group, the Actresses' Franch...
The period 1966-1977 saw the emergence of both the Canadian feminist movement and a new Canadian dra...
In the context of the women’s movement at the turn of the 20th century and the campaign for the vote...
Canadian modernist critics have tended to denigrate the works of nineteenth-century closet dramatist...
My dissertation examines how Canadian revisionist plays adapt popular narratives—national histories,...
A brief survey of political theatre in French Canada to Confederation, in its rapid evolution from t...
An analysis of the parallel development of political theatre in English and French in Canada. In bot...
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it takes to make feminist theatre now. When I was a gra...
This study examines the impact of elected women in Canada on patterns and processes of parliamentary...
This dissertation examines the print discourse of the Canadian women's suffrage movement from the 18...
This study investigates the representation of Aboriginal womanhood in Aboriginal women’s theatre in ...
This dissertation investigates the links between social and political life in Canada at the close of...
History paints a bleak picture of Ontario women's lack of electoral success after 1919, the year wom...
Catherine Scott’s paper travels beyond European spaces to lead to the scene of Quebec Women’s theatr...