WOMENTHEATRENET - Women'sTransnationalTheatreNetworks,1789-1914

如果把女性的作品放在19世纪西方戏剧的中心，它的历史会是什么样子？WOMENTHEATRENET提出了这个根本性的问题，以实现漫长的19世纪西方主流戏剧史学的范式转变。目前的知识状况表明，妇女一直活跃在戏剧中，但她们的作品被审美价值的性别和等级划分以及根深蒂固的记录做法所掩盖。妇女工作的机构和创新被最小化，妇女文化网络被视为从属于有权势的男性从业者网络。在大多数戏剧史学中，国家戏剧史学和精英机构的主导地位加剧了这种艺术状态。WOMENTHEATRENET将通过一系列关于英国、爱尔兰、澳大利亚和印度相互关联的戏剧文化的示范案例研究，使妇女的戏剧作品变得可见，这些研究将调查并使以女性为中心的跨国创意和智力交流网络变得可见。这些案例研究将得到一项对英国和法国妇女交流和网络的研究的补充。研究小组将与特邀访问学者组成的学术网络一起，分析妇女戏剧工作作为文化公民的一种形式，在交流、流通、翻译和改编的做法中，在主流商业剧院和“非戏剧”做法中的条件。WOMENTHEATRENET将审查a)流行和主流戏剧(包括翻译和改编)中的妇女戏剧作品的档案数据；b)副戏剧作品(在现有戏剧空间之外的演出)；以及c)在19世纪的跨国和帝国网络中为戏剧写作和关于戏剧的写作。这项研究将通过书籍长度的出版物、文章、实践研究方案和国际学术会议进行传播。

What would a history of 19th-century Western theatre look like if the work of women were placed at its centre? WOMENTHEATRENET poses this fundamental question to effect a paradigm shift in the historiography of mainstream western theatre in the long 19th century. The current state of knowledge suggests that women have always been active in the theatre, but their work has been obscured by gendered and classed hierarchies of aesthetic value, and entrenched practices of documentation. The agency and innovation of women's work is minimised, and women's cultural networks regarded as subordinate to networks of powerful male practitioners. This state of the art is exacerbated by the dominance of national theatre histories and élite institutions in most theatre historiography. WOMENTHEATRENET will make women's theatre work visible through a series of exemplary case studies of the interlinked theatrical cultures of Britain, Ireland, Australia and India, which will investigate and make visible transnational female-centred networks of creative and intellectual exchange. These case studies will be complemented by a study of women's exchanges and networks in Britain and France. The research team, together with a scholarly network of invited Visiting Fellows, will analyse the conditions of women's theatre work as a form of cultural citizenship, within practices of exchange, circulation, translation, and adaptation, in mainstream commercial theatre and 'paratheatrical' practices. WOMENTHEATRENET will examine archival data of women's theatre work in a) the popular and mainstream theatre (including translation and adaptation); b) paratheatrical work (performances outside established theatre spaces); and c) writing for and about the theatre, in the transnational and imperial networks of the 19th century. The research will be disseminated through book-length publications, articles, a research through practice programme, and international scholarly meetings.