WOMENTHEATRENET - Women'sTransnationalTheatreNetworks,1789-1914

如果将女性作品置于19世纪西方戏剧史的中心，将会是什么样子？WOMENTHEATRENET提出了这个基本问题，在漫长的19世纪西方主流戏剧史学中产生了范式转变。目前的知识状况表明，女性一直活跃在戏剧中，但她们的工作被性别和审美价值的等级制度以及根深蒂固的记录做法所掩盖。女性工作的能动性和创新性被最小化，女性的文化网络被认为是从属于强大的男性从业者的网络。在大多数戏剧史学中，国家戏剧史和<s:1>生活组织组织的主导地位加剧了这种艺术状态。WOMENTHEATRENET将通过对英国、爱尔兰、澳大利亚和印度相互关联的戏剧文化的一系列示范案例研究，使妇女戏剧作品可见，这些研究将调查并使以女性为中心的跨国创作和知识交流网络可见。这些个案研究将由一项关于英国和法国妇女交流和网络的研究加以补充。研究团队将与受邀访问学者组成的学术网络一起，在主流商业戏剧和“准戏剧”实践的交流、流通、翻译和改编实践中，分析女性戏剧作品作为一种文化公民形式的条件。WOMENTHEATRENET将审查以下方面的女性戏剧作品的档案数据：a)流行和主流戏剧（包括翻译和改编）；B)准戏剧作品（在既定剧院空间之外的表演）；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.