
Published online:
20 September 2018
Published in print:
01 February 2018
Online ISBN:
9781474445030
Print ISBN:
9781474408912
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Sensa: A Mystery Play in Three Acts Sensa: A Mystery Play in Three Acts
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Sensa and Theatrical Symbolism Sensa and Theatrical Symbolism
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Thinking about the Whole: Networks, Collaborations, and Creative and Professional Range Thinking about the Whole: Networks, Collaborations, and Creative and Professional Range
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A Writer of More than Average Skill: Collins and the Sensation Press A Writer of More than Average Skill: Collins and the Sensation Press
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Experimental Theatrical Symbolism and the West End Commercial Theatre Industry Experimental Theatrical Symbolism and the West End Commercial Theatre Industry
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Theatrical Networks: The Florence Etlinger Theatre School Theatrical Networks: The Florence Etlinger Theatre School
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‘This drama is a story which has been told in all ages’ ‘This drama is a story which has been told in all ages’
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Notes Notes
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Works Cited Works Cited
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Chapter
16 When a Bestselling Author and a West End Actress Made a Spiritualist Performance: Collaboration, Networks and Theatre at the Fin de Siècle
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Pages
301–320
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Published:February 2018
Cite
Hindson, Catherine, 'When a Bestselling Author and a West End Actress Made a Spiritualist Performance: Collaboration, Networks and Theatre at the Fin de Siècle', in Josephine M. Guy (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts, Edinburgh Companions to Literature (Edinburgh , 2018; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 20 Sept. 2018), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474408912.003.0017, accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter offers a detailed reconstruction of the performance of a piece of avant-garde drama to highlights the prominent role of women in theatrical culture at the time, as both dramatists and actresses, and the professional opportunities that were then opening for them. It also shows the importance of a growing celebrity culture, and the complexity of the interactions between theatre, politics, religion, gender and theatrical production. It shows that even avant-garde theatre, concerned with such archetypal fin-de-siècle concerns as the occult and mysticism, were still deeply implicated in, and made possible by, a growing leisure industry.
Keywords:
Avant-garde theatre, Actresses, Women dramatists, Occult, Mysticism, Celebrity culture, Leisure industry
Subject
Literary Studies (19th Century)
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