Review of Laura Engel and Elaine McGirr, eds., Stage Mothers: Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660-1830

Authors

Kristina Straub, Carnegie Mellon UniversityFollow

Author Biography

Kristina Straub is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University where she teaches eighteenth-century British studies, performance studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies. She is most recently the author of Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth Century Britain (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). She co-curated “Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and Literary Celebrity” an exhibition at the Folger Shakespeare Library with Janine Barchas, and is now finishing a new anthology and sourcebook of eighteenth-century drama (with Misty Anderson and Daniel O’Quinn) for Routledge Press. She is embarking with Anderson and O’Quinn on a new anthology for Routledge that will focus on performances on significant nights at the London Theatres

Abstract

Stage Mothers is a collection of essays that complicate the binary between female professional and domestic mother, contributing to theater history and the history of female professionalization and maternity.

Keywords

Maternity, Theater, Actress

Recommended Citation

Straub, Kristina (2017) "Review of Laura Engel and Elaine McGirr, eds., Stage Mothers: Women, Work, and the Theater, 1660-1830," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol.7: Iss.2, Article 8.
http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.7.2.1160
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol7/iss2/8