This is Not a Chapter About Jane Harrison

Gloyn, Liz

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“…First, the classically inspired plots of the shows collected in this article are founded on random historical and mythological episodes from the Greek and Roman traditions. The choice of such classical sources might be related to the authoresses' gendered educations in the Classics, which (if any), by the turn of the century and despite all the efforts made by women classicists at higher institutions, 93 still favoured Latin over Greek. Except for Lady Colin Campbell, who was an avid reader in the Classics, 94 I have not yet found evidence of the education in Greek and Latin of the women considered here.…”

Section: Conclusion: Reading the Mapmentioning

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A ‘Distinctive’ Map of London: Women, Theatre and the Classics in 1893

Monrós-Gaspar¹

2020

Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film

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Copious geographies of nineteenth-century London spectacle have been mapped following different scales and criteria. In this article, I invite readers to scrutinise London’s entertainment industry in 1893 focusing on the venues where modern reconfigurations and adaptations of Greek and Roman mythology by women were first staged. Such a map reveals microhistories of the streets, theatres, pleasure gardens and concert halls, where women as creators and agents of the classical revival played an essential role that has generally been forgotten by theatre historians and classical reception studies. As I aim to demonstrate, this new and gendered cartography challenges the notion of a classical repertoire and the boundaries between the popular and the legitimate.

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Section: Conclusion: Reading the Mapmentioning

confidence: 99%