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Elaine Aston

Elaine Aston is a Professor at the Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University, and the author of a monograph on Caryl Churchill which she has updated in three editions published by Northcote House, as well as the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill and the Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights from Cambridge University Press.

Elaine is acclaimed for her work on theatre research and feminism, publishing several books on Feminist Theatre Practice, and currently serves as the President of the International Federation for Theatre Research.

British feminist theatrologist and university teacher

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1958

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An Introduction to Feminism and Theatre

by Elaine Aston First published in 1994 — 11 editions

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Feminist theatre practice: a handbook

by Elaine Aston and Laura Sáez Fernández First published in 1999 — 10 editions

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Bobby Baker: Redeeming Features of Daily Life

by Michèle Barrett, Bobby Baker, Adrian Heathfield, Marina Warner, Aisling Foster, Gerry Harris, Elaine Aston, Helen Iball, Roy Foster, and 8 others First published in 2007 — 10 editions

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Feminist views on the English stage: women playwrights, 1990-2000

by Elaine Aston First published in 2003 — 9 editions

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Theatre as sign-system: a semiotics of text and performance

by Elaine Aston and George Savona First published in 1991 — 9 editions

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Pulp and other plays

by Tasha Fairbanks, Gabriele Griffin, Elaine Aston, and G. Griffin First published in 1996 — 9 editions

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Good Night Out for the Girls: Popular Feminisms in Contemporary Theatre and Performance

by Elaine Aston and Gerry Harris First published in 2012 — 5 editions

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Feminist Futures?: Theatre, Performance, Theory (Performance Interventions)

by Elaine Aston and Gerry Harris First published in 2006 — 5 editions

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Staging International Feminisms (Studies in International Performance)

by Elaine Aston, Sue-Ellen Case, and S. Case First published in 2007 — 5 editions

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Royal Court: International

by Elaine Aston and Mark O'Thomas First published in 2015 — 4 editions

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights

by Elaine Aston and Janelle G. Reinelt First published in 2000 — 4 editions

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The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

by Elaine Aston, Elin Diamond, Janelle G. Reinelt, Jean E. Howard, Mary Luckhurst, Libby Worth, Sheila Rabillard, R. Darren Gobert, and Dan Rebellato First published in 2009 — 4 editions

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Caryl Churchill

by Elaine Aston and British Council Staff First published in 1997 — 4 editions

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Herstory: Plays by Women for Women (Critical Stages, No 6)

by Gabriele Griffin and Elaine Aston First published in 1991 — 3 editions

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Curfew (Routledge Harwood Contemporary Theatre Studies)

by Tasha Fairbanks, Gabriele Griffin, and Elaine Aston First published in 1996 — 2 editions

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Restaging Feminisms

by Elaine Aston First published in 2020 — 2 editions

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Sarah Bernhardt: a French actress on the English stage

by Elaine Aston First published in 1989 — 2 editions

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Performance Practice and Process: Contemporary (Women) Practitioners

by Elaine Aston and Gerry Harris First published in 2008 — 2 editions

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Getting to know you: a picture book for new parents of older children-toddlers to twelves

by Elaine Aston First published in 1981 — 2 editions

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Outside the doll's house: a study in images of women in English and French theatre 1848-1914

by Elaine Aston First published in 1987 — 2 editions

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British feminist theatrologist and university teacher

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1958

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OLID: OL234273A
Amazon ID: B001HMU1BS
GoodReads: 162771
ISNI: 0000000374216368
Library of Congress Names: n88032827
LibraryThing: astonelaine
Storygraph: c1f082e7-54af-40a5-82e7-178b2899df68
VIAF: 62771829
Wikidata: Q112424724
Inventaire.io: wd:Q112424724

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