Anthologies

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Notes

1 These two recent anthologies are Maggie B. Gale and John F. Deeney, The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism to Contemporary Performance (London: Routledge, 2010). This is a large-scale volume which collects plays, performance texts, and critical essays by practitioners and theorists across mainly Europe, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first: a second edition is due out in 2015. The second anthology, and one closer to my heart as an editor, is Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880–1930: An Anthology of Plays by British and American Women from the Modernist Period, ed. by Maggie B. Gale and Gilli Bush-Bailey (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012). This includes plays and monologues by women from the commercial and non-commercial sectors of the theatre industries – some of which have never been published or not republished after their original production.

2 This happened with a play by G. B. Stern – ‘The Man Who Pays the Piper’ – which was re-published in Plays and Performance Texts by Women 1880–1930: An Anthology of Plays by British and American Women from the Modernist Period. Following various email correspondence after sending him a copy of the volume, Sam Waters, the then director of the Orange Tree theatre in Richmond, London, and a great champion of ‘forgotten’ work by women, revived this proto-feminist play written by one of the most popular women novelists of the 1930s. The play had originally run in the West End for one week in 1931 but Waters saw it as having real contemporary currency and reviewers thought similarly. See, for example, Michael Billington, Review of The Man Who Pays the Piper, Guardian <http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/mar/18/man-who-pays-piper-review> [accessed 19 August 2014] and Laura Thompson, Review of The Man Who Pays the Piper, Telegraph <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/9940411/The-Man-Who-Pays-the-Piper-Orange-Tree-Theatre-Richmond-review.html> [accessed 19 August 2014].