Charlotte Canning
Biographic Data
| ID | 3981635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Canning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Canning |
| SIGNATURE | CANNING C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the Interest of the State
The emerging cold war was a key moment for the question of a national theatre for the United States. Anxieties were strong around how the country should fulfill its new role as world super-power, while a need for national institutions to represent the United States created the context for the first truly fruitful collaboration between the live performance communities and the federal government. One the most important sites for this work was the A…
Re-Dressing the Canon
The Platform Versus the Stage
The Platform Versus the Stage: The Circuit Chautauqua’s Antitheatrical Theatre* Charlotte Canning (bio) [Chautauqua] is our oasis—our life belt. The music we hear . . . is the music we sing . . . all through the year. The lectures we discuss for months. My husband remembers all the jokes and the politics and I try to remember . . . all the new ideas set forth. . . . Sometime I think we could not endure [our] privations and loneliness . . . if it …
Acting out
Original Women's Theater
Constructing Experience
Women and theatre history have always had an uneasy relationship. Women's theatre experiences, until recently, have rarely appeared in theatre histories, and each generation of women in theatre has had to invent itself anew. Women, particularly feminists, are understandably suspicious of the operations of a hegemonic theatre history tradition. As feminist theatre historians have problematized the writing of theatre history, they have been confron…
The Divided Home/Land
The Divided Home/Land
In the Interest of the State
The emerging cold war was a key moment for the question of a national theatre for the United States. Anxieties were strong around how the country should fulfill its new role as world super-power, while a need for national institutions to represent the United States created the context for the first truly fruitful collaboration between the live performance communities and the federal government. One the most important sites for this work was the A…
Constructing Experience
Women and theatre history have always had an uneasy relationship. Women's theatre experiences, until recently, have rarely appeared in theatre histories, and each generation of women in theatre has had to invent itself anew. Women, particularly feminists, are understandably suspicious of the operations of a hegemonic theatre history tradition. As feminist theatre historians have problematized the writing of theatre history, they have been confron…
Constructing Experience
Women and theatre history have always had an uneasy relationship. Women's theatre experiences, until recently, have rarely appeared in theatre histories, and each generation of women in theatre has had to invent itself anew. Women, particularly feminists, are understandably suspicious of the operations of a hegemonic theatre history tradition. As feminist theatre historians have problematized the writing of theatre history, they have been confron…
The Divided Home/Land
Original Women's Theater
Acting out
The Platform Versus the Stage
The Platform Versus the Stage: The Circuit Chautauqua’s Antitheatrical Theatre* Charlotte Canning (bio) [Chautauqua] is our oasis—our life belt. The music we hear . . . is the music we sing . . . all through the year. The lectures we discuss for months. My husband remembers all the jokes and the politics and I try to remember . . . all the new ideas set forth. . . . Sometime I think we could not endure [our] privations and loneliness . . . if it …
Re-Dressing the Canon
In the Interest of the State
The emerging cold war was a key moment for the question of a national theatre for the United States. Anxieties were strong around how the country should fulfill its new role as world super-power, while a need for national institutions to represent the United States created the context for the first truly fruitful collaboration between the live performance communities and the federal government. One the most important sites for this work was the A…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)