Katharine Cockin
I have been researching the lives and theatre work of the Victorian performer, Ellen Terry (1847-1928) and her daughter, Edith Craig (1869-1947) for the last twenty years. I have also written on women's suffrage literature and contemporary fiction and poetry. My first book was the biography of Edith Craig (Cassell 1998), a lesbian theatre director who was active in the British women's suffrage movement. My second book was a monograph on the Pioneer Players 1911-25, the London-based theatre society founded by Edith Craig (Palgrave 2001). I am now editing Ellen Terry's letters (8 volumes). Six volumes are in press and the final two volumes are to follow.
I have also edited Ellen Terry: Lives of the Shakespearian Actors (Pickering & Chatto), a collection of reviews and articles about Terry's performance. Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence (reviewed in Victorian Studies), is a collection of essays based on the conference held at the University of Hull in 2009.
Other interests include science (in) fiction, Law and Literature and literary representations of the North of England. I have edited The Literary North (Palgrave 2012), a collection of essays drawn from the conference held at the University of Hull. This was reviewed in the Times Higher and Review of English Studies.
I devised and convened the MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Hull (2007-14). The programme covered literature from 1900 to the present day, and includes an interdisciplinary, team-taught module on Law and Literature, a collaboration with colleagues in the Law School.
I was invited by Equity, the Actors' Union, to give a talk on Edith Craig for LGBT History Month. This took place on 12 February 2010 at the Phoenix Artists' Club at the Phoenix Theatre, London.
On 7 May 2011 the University of Hull hosted a production of Cicely Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women (with additional 'great women' of Hull, Amy Johnson, Mary Murdoch and Mary Wollstonecraft), produced and directed by Dr Anna Birch, Fragments and Monuments.
Women's suffrage literature is covered on Open Book (BBC Radio 4) in Mariella Frostrup's four-part series on women's writing. I'm interviewed (very briefly!) in the first programme ten minutes in(broadcast on Sunday 10 July 2011). See the link on 'websites' below.
I was invited to give a short talk on Ethel Smyth, lesbian composer and suffragette, at the LGBT History Month Pre-launch event on 24 November 2013 at the University of Birmingham. In 2017 I organised 'Celebrating Suffragettes' for International Women's Day at University of Hull. This included a talk to launch my new book, Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017), a tableau illustrating a 'suffragette prison cell' and a performance of a new completion by Dr Simon Desbruslais and the Hull University Chapel Choir of Ethel Smyth's brass music for 'The March of The Women'. This new fragment of music was discovered by me and is reproduced as an illustration in Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art (2017).
Address: University of Essex
Dept of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
Wivenhoe Campus
Colchester.
CO4 3SQ
England
I have also edited Ellen Terry: Lives of the Shakespearian Actors (Pickering & Chatto), a collection of reviews and articles about Terry's performance. Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence (reviewed in Victorian Studies), is a collection of essays based on the conference held at the University of Hull in 2009.
Other interests include science (in) fiction, Law and Literature and literary representations of the North of England. I have edited The Literary North (Palgrave 2012), a collection of essays drawn from the conference held at the University of Hull. This was reviewed in the Times Higher and Review of English Studies.
I devised and convened the MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Hull (2007-14). The programme covered literature from 1900 to the present day, and includes an interdisciplinary, team-taught module on Law and Literature, a collaboration with colleagues in the Law School.
I was invited by Equity, the Actors' Union, to give a talk on Edith Craig for LGBT History Month. This took place on 12 February 2010 at the Phoenix Artists' Club at the Phoenix Theatre, London.
On 7 May 2011 the University of Hull hosted a production of Cicely Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women (with additional 'great women' of Hull, Amy Johnson, Mary Murdoch and Mary Wollstonecraft), produced and directed by Dr Anna Birch, Fragments and Monuments.
Women's suffrage literature is covered on Open Book (BBC Radio 4) in Mariella Frostrup's four-part series on women's writing. I'm interviewed (very briefly!) in the first programme ten minutes in(broadcast on Sunday 10 July 2011). See the link on 'websites' below.
I was invited to give a short talk on Ethel Smyth, lesbian composer and suffragette, at the LGBT History Month Pre-launch event on 24 November 2013 at the University of Birmingham. In 2017 I organised 'Celebrating Suffragettes' for International Women's Day at University of Hull. This included a talk to launch my new book, Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017), a tableau illustrating a 'suffragette prison cell' and a performance of a new completion by Dr Simon Desbruslais and the Hull University Chapel Choir of Ethel Smyth's brass music for 'The March of The Women'. This new fragment of music was discovered by me and is reproduced as an illustration in Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art (2017).
Address: University of Essex
Dept of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
Wivenhoe Campus
Colchester.
CO4 3SQ
England
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Interviewed by Nick Thorne, 'The Nosey Genealogist', 8 April 2017. See www.ellenterryarchive.hull.ac.uk/star
Register by emailing [email protected] and more info here:
https://culturenet.co.uk/events/iwd-celebrating-suffragettes-edith-craig-and-ethel-smyth-1
Lecture
Celebrating Suffragettes: Edith Craig and Ethel Smyth, Collaborators in Women's Suffrage Drama, Art and Music
International Women's Day
Professor Katharine Cockin will give an illustrated talk on women's suffrage drama, art and music with reference to her new biography, Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017). This will be followed by Dr Simon Desbrulais, who will lead the choir and perform 'The March of the Women', the women's suffrage anthem composed by Dame Ethel Smyth.
Dr Desbrulais will perform additional trumpet music composed by Dame Ethel Smyth which Professor Cockin discovered in the National Trust's Ellen Terry and Edith Craig archive and is discussed in her book. This will be the first performance of this additional trumpet music.
Searching For Theatrical Ancestors project conference
at the British Library, London on Friday 29 July 10am to 5pm
Experts explore ways of searching for theatrical ancestors by using theatre history resources online and in archives (including marriage and travel records).
The keynote speaker is Professor Katharine Cockin, University of Hull, who will introduce a demonstration by her team of the new online resource developed by the ‘Searching For Theatrical Ancestors’ project. This project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and in partnership with the National Trust, the British Library and the Federation of Family History Societies.
Other speakers include: Dr Nicholas J. Evans, University of Hull; Professor Rebecca Probert, University of Warwick; Dr Moira Goff, Garrick Club Library and Collections; Julie-Anne Lambert, John Johnson Collection, Bodleian LIbrary; Paul Cox, National Portrait Gallery, Kathryn Johnson, British Library.
Register here: http://www.bl.uk/events/searching-for-theatrical-ancestors
The conference accompanies the British Library's exhibition, Shakespeare in Ten Acts, which explores ten performances that have made Shakespeare the cultural icon he is today. The day will include free entry to the exhibition.
Professor Katharine Cockin organised a conference to mark the centenary of Edith Craig’s Pioneer Players theatre society in 2011, for which Dr Anna Birch directed A Pageant of Great Women. This ‘Pageants and Pioneers’ event has been followed by a centenary conference in 2014 to mark the 1914 production by Edith Craig of a play by Hrotsvit, the tenth-century nun said to be the first female dramatist. Anna Birch directed a reading of the play which is now available online.
Conference forthcoming by Katharine Cockin
Follow us on twitter @northsouth2017 and
email at [email protected]
Papers are welcome on:
women's suffrage drama and its appropriation of historical figures and periods (including the Medieval);
the work of Edith Craig, Christopher St John, the Pioneer Players;
early twentieth-century plays about prostitution/religion/abjection/imprisonment.
Books by Katharine Cockin
She captured the imagination of Virginia Woolf, inspiring the portrait of Miss LaTrobe in her 1941 novel Between the Acts, and influenced a generation of actors, such as Sybil Thorndike and Edith Evans. Frequently eclipsed in accounts of theatrical endeavour by her younger brother, Edward Gordon Craig, Edith Craig's contribution both to theatre and to the women's suffrage movement receives timely reappraisal in Katharine Cockin's meticulously researched and wide-ranging biography, released for the seventieth anniversary of Craig's death. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/edith-craig-and-the-theatres-of-art-9781472570642/#sthash.Gk5xK04q.dpuf
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Series Editor: Katharine Cockin
This series will present biographies, monographs and edited collections of scholarly essays about individuals who have worked in the theatre either as a principal occupation or who have made a significant contribution to the theatre. As well as studies of distinguished figures of the theatre, the series will include works on artists, writers, political activists and amateurs working on its fringes, bringing a wealth of other experience from fields such as literature, art, music, social reform and political activism.
Send us a Proposal
Manuscripts should be in the range of 80,000 to 100,000 words. Proposals should be eight to ten pages in length and should include a brief overview of the relevant scholarship in the field, the contribution which your work will make to the field, a breakdown of the contents by chapter, an account of the number and type of illustrations, the length, competing books, and the intended audience. Proposals should include a minimum of two sample chapters. For detailed information on submitting a proposal, including an example of a successful submission, please click here.
Please contact either Mark Pollard, Publishing Director ([email protected]) or Katharine Cockin ([email protected]) for preliminary review.
Readership
Books published in this series are aimed at the academic, research and advanced postgraduate markets. Spanning the period from early modern to the contemporary, the series should appeal to those involved in auto/biography, theatre history, literary studies, gender studies, history and politics.
Editorial board
Katharine Cockin is Professor in English at the University of Hull. Her research interests cover the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular focus on the women's suffrage movement in Britain, the life and work of both Edith Craig and Ellen Terry, and contemporary literature. Publications include The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry (ed) (Pickering & Chatto, 2010 onwards), with Jago Morrison (eds), The Continuum Handbook on Post-war British Literature (Continuum, 2009), 'The Fiction of Gertrude Colmore II' in Women's Suffrage Literature (Routledge, 2007) and Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: The Pioneer Players 1911–25 (Palgrave, 2001). She is a longstanding member of the Society for Theatre Research.
Published Titles
Katharine Cockin (ed.) Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence (April 2011)
(April 2011)
Forthcoming Titles
Stephanie Green The Public Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes (forthcoming May 2013)
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/monographs/public_lives_of_charlotte_and_marie_stopes_the
Helen Grime, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies:Twentieth Century Actress (forthcoming May 2013)
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/monographs/gwen_ffrangcon_davies_twentieth_century_actress
Herbert Beerbohm Tree epitomized the late-Victorian and Edwardian actor-manager. Known for his monumental productions of Shakespeare, he was criticized by many as vulgar. Yet his work was popular and his Shakespeare festivals celebrated Shakespeare’s place as a national and imperial figure.
Famous for his distinctive mannerisms, Henry Irving’s acting divided critics. Perhaps the best known of all the actor-managers, he often took responsibility for directing, set-design and casting, and re-opened the Lyceum theatre under his own control. In 1895 he was the first actor to be awarded a knighthood.
Ellen Terry was considered the greatest Shakespearian actress in Britain. Brought into partnership with Irving, she spent two decades as his leading lady.
Substantial volume introductions and extensive notes provide contextual analysis of the source material. This set will be essential to those researching the staging of Shakespeare’s plays, the History of the Theatre and to those teaching performance studies.
Contains over 300 rare documents, including reviews, articles and extracts from biographies
Focuses on the contemporary response to performance
Material is drawn from several periodicals including Era, Blackwood’s Magazine and the Athenaeum
Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, chronology, volume introductions, headnotes and endnotes
Consolidated index appears in the final volume
Volume 3: Ellen Terry
Edited by Katharine Cockin
Contents:
Charles Dodgson, The Diaries of Lewis Carroll Volume One (1856–8) [excerpts]; Charles Tawse, ‘Charles Kean’s Winter’s Tale', Theatre (1888); 'Drama', Daily News (1858); 'The Theatres', Daily News (1887); Frederick Wedmore, ‘The Merchant of Venice at the Prince of Wales’, Stage, (1875); ‘Theatres’, Graphic (1875); J S, ‘The Merchant of Venice at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre’, Fraser’s Magazine (1875); Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949) [excerpts]; 'Art Gossip: Henry Irving as Manager', Aberdeen Journal (1879) [excerpt]; H Savile Clark, 'To Miss Ellen Terry as Ophelia', Examiner (1879); H Savile Clark, 'Hamlet at the Lyceum', Examiner (1879); ‘Theatrical Reform: The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum’, Blackwood’s Magazine (1879); ‘The Examiner of Plays: The Lyceum’, Examiner (1879); ‘The Examiner of Plays: The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum', Examiner (1879); ‘Theatres’, Graphic (1879); Anna Lea Merritt, ‘Miss Ellen Terry as Ophelia, Etcher (1879); W Davenport Adams, ‘Ellen Terry as Beatrice', Theatre (1880); ‘Mr Irving and Miss Terry in Glasgow’, Era (1883); ‘Miss Ellen Terry’s Benefit', Era (1887); Edward Dutton Cook, ‘Ellen Terry’, Theatre (1880); [Henry James], ‘The London Theatres’, Scribner’s Monthly (1881); ‘Public Amusements’, Liverpool Mercury (1881); E R R, ‘Ellen Terry as Portia’, Theatre (1880); ‘Helen Faucit and Ellen Terry’, Era (1880); ‘Miss Ellen Terry as Portia’, Illustrated London News (1880); Kate Terry Gielgud, An Autobiography (1953) [excerpt]; Graham Robertson, Time Was: The Reminiscences of W Graham Robertson (1931) [excerpt]; A B W, 'The Drama', Speaker (1898); ‘King Lear at the Lyceum’, The Times (1892); Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949) [excerpt]; [G B S], 'Romeo and Juliet', Saturday Review (1895); G B S, ‘Mainly About Shakespeare’, Saturday Review (1897); Marie Corelli, ‘Viola’, Temple Bar (1884); William Archer, ‘Twelfth Night at the Lyceum’, Macmillan’s Magazine (1884); Lewis Carroll, ‘The Stage and the Spirit of Reverence', Theatre (1888); William Winter, Shadows of the Stage (1906); William Archer, ‘Macbeth and Common Sense’, Murray’s Magazine (1889); A G L ,‘Irving’s Macbeth’, Poet-lore (1889); Percy Fitzgerald, 'Macbeth', Theatre (1889); Anon., [review of Macbeth], Morning Post (1888); Edward Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self (1931) [excerpt]; Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949) [excerpt]; George Bernard Shaw, ‘Blaming the Bard’, Saturday Review (1896); R Warwick Bond, ‘Cymbeline at the Lyceum’, Fortnightly Review (1896); Clement Scott, The Drama Of Yesterday and To-Day (1899) [excerpt]; Bram Stoker, ‘The Art of Ellen Terry’, Playgoer (1901–2); Bernard Partridge, ‘Fifty Years A Queen (An Author’s Tribute)’, Punch (1906); Basil Dean, Seven Ages (1970) [excerpt]; Kate Terry Gielgud, An Autobiography (1953) [excerpt]; 'Miss Ellen Terry’s Jubilee Benefit’, Review of Reviews (1906); ‘The Winter’s Tale Revived at His Majesty’s Theatre’, Illustrated London News (1906); B W Findon, ‘The Play and Its Story’, Play Pictorial (1906); 'Miss Ellen Terry: Recital Programme' (1912); 'Miss Ellen Terry in her Charming Recital' [programme]; Christopher St John, 'Introduction', in Ellen Terry, Four Lectures on Shakespeare (1932); Ellen Terry, Four Lectures on Shakespeare (1932) [excerpt]; Christopher St John, The First Actress (1911) [excerpt]; Cariacature of Ellen Terry as Suffragette; ‘Miss Ellen Terry at the Haymarket’, Academy (1911); ‘Shakespeare’s Heroines by Ellen Terry’, Review of Reviews (1910); Ellen Terry, 'The Women of Shakespeare'; Basil Dean, Seven Ages (1970) [excerpt]; Anon., ‘The Last Rosalind’, Theatre (1885); Oscar Wilde, ‘Shakespeare and Stage Costume’, Nineteenth Century (1885); William Archer, ‘A Well-Graced Actress’, National Review (1886); Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949) [excerpt]; Harry How, 'Illustrated Interview No. XVII: Ellen Terry', Strand (1892); Anon., ‘Miss Ellen Terry on Operatic Acting’, Magazine of Music (1893); Joseph Knight et al, ‘Who is the Greatest Living Actress – And Why?', Idler (1895); Clement Scott, ‘The New Dictator’, Theatre (1895); G B S, ‘The Silver Key’, Saturday Review (1897); Austin Brereton, ‘Ellen Terry, Player Queen’, English Illustrated Magazine (1897); T Edgar Pemberton, Ellen Terry and Her Sisters (1902) [excerpt]; Christopher St John, Ellen Terry (1907) [excerpt]; ‘Henry Irving and Ellen Terry’, Bookman (1908); H M Walbrook, ‘Great Acting in Shakespeare’, Pall Mall Magazine (1910); Anon., ‘Kate Douglas Wiggin and Ellen Terry’, Bookman (1911); 'Editorial', Freewoman (1911); Alice Comyns Carr, ‘Ellen Terry: Recollections of a Long Friendship’, Fortnightly Review (1922); Ivor Brown, ‘To the Unknown Goddess’, Saturday Review (1928); Stephen Gwynn, ‘Ebb and Flow’, Fortnightly Review (1928); Edward Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self (1931); Virginia Woolf, ‘Ellen Terry’, New Statesman (1941); Graham Robertson, Time Was: The Reminiscences of W Graham Robertson (1931) [excerpt]; Ernest Milton, ‘Heart and Mind’, Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig (1949); Margaret Webster, The Same Only Different: Five Generations of a Great Family (1969) [excerpts]; Rebecca West, 'New Light on Ellen Terry' (1932); Christopher St John, ‘Ellen Terry’s Shrine’, Sackbut (1933); 'The Ellen Terry Memorial' [leaflet]
Interviewed by Nick Thorne, 'The Nosey Genealogist', 8 April 2017. See www.ellenterryarchive.hull.ac.uk/star
Register by emailing [email protected] and more info here:
https://culturenet.co.uk/events/iwd-celebrating-suffragettes-edith-craig-and-ethel-smyth-1
Lecture
Celebrating Suffragettes: Edith Craig and Ethel Smyth, Collaborators in Women's Suffrage Drama, Art and Music
International Women's Day
Professor Katharine Cockin will give an illustrated talk on women's suffrage drama, art and music with reference to her new biography, Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017). This will be followed by Dr Simon Desbrulais, who will lead the choir and perform 'The March of the Women', the women's suffrage anthem composed by Dame Ethel Smyth.
Dr Desbrulais will perform additional trumpet music composed by Dame Ethel Smyth which Professor Cockin discovered in the National Trust's Ellen Terry and Edith Craig archive and is discussed in her book. This will be the first performance of this additional trumpet music.
Searching For Theatrical Ancestors project conference
at the British Library, London on Friday 29 July 10am to 5pm
Experts explore ways of searching for theatrical ancestors by using theatre history resources online and in archives (including marriage and travel records).
The keynote speaker is Professor Katharine Cockin, University of Hull, who will introduce a demonstration by her team of the new online resource developed by the ‘Searching For Theatrical Ancestors’ project. This project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and in partnership with the National Trust, the British Library and the Federation of Family History Societies.
Other speakers include: Dr Nicholas J. Evans, University of Hull; Professor Rebecca Probert, University of Warwick; Dr Moira Goff, Garrick Club Library and Collections; Julie-Anne Lambert, John Johnson Collection, Bodleian LIbrary; Paul Cox, National Portrait Gallery, Kathryn Johnson, British Library.
Register here: http://www.bl.uk/events/searching-for-theatrical-ancestors
The conference accompanies the British Library's exhibition, Shakespeare in Ten Acts, which explores ten performances that have made Shakespeare the cultural icon he is today. The day will include free entry to the exhibition.
Professor Katharine Cockin organised a conference to mark the centenary of Edith Craig’s Pioneer Players theatre society in 2011, for which Dr Anna Birch directed A Pageant of Great Women. This ‘Pageants and Pioneers’ event has been followed by a centenary conference in 2014 to mark the 1914 production by Edith Craig of a play by Hrotsvit, the tenth-century nun said to be the first female dramatist. Anna Birch directed a reading of the play which is now available online.
Follow us on twitter @northsouth2017 and
email at [email protected]
Papers are welcome on:
women's suffrage drama and its appropriation of historical figures and periods (including the Medieval);
the work of Edith Craig, Christopher St John, the Pioneer Players;
early twentieth-century plays about prostitution/religion/abjection/imprisonment.
She captured the imagination of Virginia Woolf, inspiring the portrait of Miss LaTrobe in her 1941 novel Between the Acts, and influenced a generation of actors, such as Sybil Thorndike and Edith Evans. Frequently eclipsed in accounts of theatrical endeavour by her younger brother, Edward Gordon Craig, Edith Craig's contribution both to theatre and to the women's suffrage movement receives timely reappraisal in Katharine Cockin's meticulously researched and wide-ranging biography, released for the seventieth anniversary of Craig's death. - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/edith-craig-and-the-theatres-of-art-9781472570642/#sthash.Gk5xK04q.dpuf
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Series Editor: Katharine Cockin
This series will present biographies, monographs and edited collections of scholarly essays about individuals who have worked in the theatre either as a principal occupation or who have made a significant contribution to the theatre. As well as studies of distinguished figures of the theatre, the series will include works on artists, writers, political activists and amateurs working on its fringes, bringing a wealth of other experience from fields such as literature, art, music, social reform and political activism.
Send us a Proposal
Manuscripts should be in the range of 80,000 to 100,000 words. Proposals should be eight to ten pages in length and should include a brief overview of the relevant scholarship in the field, the contribution which your work will make to the field, a breakdown of the contents by chapter, an account of the number and type of illustrations, the length, competing books, and the intended audience. Proposals should include a minimum of two sample chapters. For detailed information on submitting a proposal, including an example of a successful submission, please click here.
Please contact either Mark Pollard, Publishing Director ([email protected]) or Katharine Cockin ([email protected]) for preliminary review.
Readership
Books published in this series are aimed at the academic, research and advanced postgraduate markets. Spanning the period from early modern to the contemporary, the series should appeal to those involved in auto/biography, theatre history, literary studies, gender studies, history and politics.
Editorial board
Katharine Cockin is Professor in English at the University of Hull. Her research interests cover the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular focus on the women's suffrage movement in Britain, the life and work of both Edith Craig and Ellen Terry, and contemporary literature. Publications include The Collected Letters of Ellen Terry (ed) (Pickering & Chatto, 2010 onwards), with Jago Morrison (eds), The Continuum Handbook on Post-war British Literature (Continuum, 2009), 'The Fiction of Gertrude Colmore II' in Women's Suffrage Literature (Routledge, 2007) and Women and Theatre in the Age of Suffrage: The Pioneer Players 1911–25 (Palgrave, 2001). She is a longstanding member of the Society for Theatre Research.
Published Titles
Katharine Cockin (ed.) Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence (April 2011)
(April 2011)
Forthcoming Titles
Stephanie Green The Public Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes (forthcoming May 2013)
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/monographs/public_lives_of_charlotte_and_marie_stopes_the
Helen Grime, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies:Twentieth Century Actress (forthcoming May 2013)
http://www.pickeringchatto.com/monographs/gwen_ffrangcon_davies_twentieth_century_actress
Herbert Beerbohm Tree epitomized the late-Victorian and Edwardian actor-manager. Known for his monumental productions of Shakespeare, he was criticized by many as vulgar. Yet his work was popular and his Shakespeare festivals celebrated Shakespeare’s place as a national and imperial figure.
Famous for his distinctive mannerisms, Henry Irving’s acting divided critics. Perhaps the best known of all the actor-managers, he often took responsibility for directing, set-design and casting, and re-opened the Lyceum theatre under his own control. In 1895 he was the first actor to be awarded a knighthood.
Ellen Terry was considered the greatest Shakespearian actress in Britain. Brought into partnership with Irving, she spent two decades as his leading lady.
Substantial volume introductions and extensive notes provide contextual analysis of the source material. This set will be essential to those researching the staging of Shakespeare’s plays, the History of the Theatre and to those teaching performance studies.
Contains over 300 rare documents, including reviews, articles and extracts from biographies
Focuses on the contemporary response to performance
Material is drawn from several periodicals including Era, Blackwood’s Magazine and the Athenaeum
Editorial apparatus includes a general introduction, chronology, volume introductions, headnotes and endnotes
Consolidated index appears in the final volume
Volume 3: Ellen Terry
Edited by Katharine Cockin
Contents:
Charles Dodgson, The Diaries of Lewis Carroll Volume One (1856–8) [excerpts]; Charles Tawse, ‘Charles Kean’s Winter’s Tale', Theatre (1888); 'Drama', Daily News (1858); 'The Theatres', Daily News (1887); Frederick Wedmore, ‘The Merchant of Venice at the Prince of Wales’, Stage, (1875); ‘Theatres’, Graphic (1875); J S, ‘The Merchant of Venice at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre’, Fraser’s Magazine (1875); Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949) [excerpts]; 'Art Gossip: Henry Irving as Manager', Aberdeen Journal (1879) [excerpt]; H Savile Clark, 'To Miss Ellen Terry as Ophelia', Examiner (1879); H Savile Clark, 'Hamlet at the Lyceum', Examiner (1879); ‘Theatrical Reform: The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum’, Blackwood’s Magazine (1879); ‘The Examiner of Plays: The Lyceum’, Examiner (1879); ‘The Examiner of Plays: The Merchant of Venice at the Lyceum', Examiner (1879); ‘Theatres’, Graphic (1879); Anna Lea Merritt, ‘Miss Ellen Terry as Ophelia, Etcher (1879); W Davenport Adams, ‘Ellen Terry as Beatrice', Theatre (1880); ‘Mr Irving and Miss Terry in Glasgow’, Era (1883); ‘Miss Ellen Terry’s Benefit', Era (1887); Edward Dutton Cook, ‘Ellen Terry’, Theatre (1880); [Henry James], ‘The London Theatres’, Scribner’s Monthly (1881); ‘Public Amusements’, Liverpool Mercury (1881); E R R, ‘Ellen Terry as Portia’, Theatre (1880); ‘Helen Faucit and Ellen Terry’, Era (1880); ‘Miss Ellen Terry as Portia’, Illustrated London News (1880); Kate Terry Gielgud, An Autobiography (1953) [excerpt]; Graham Robertson, Time Was: The Reminiscences of W Graham Robertson (1931) [excerpt]; A B W, 'The Drama', Speaker (1898); ‘King Lear at the Lyceum’, The Times (1892); Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949) [excerpt]; [G B S], 'Romeo and Juliet', Saturday Review (1895); G B S, ‘Mainly About Shakespeare’, Saturday Review (1897); Marie Corelli, ‘Viola’, Temple Bar (1884); William Archer, ‘Twelfth Night at the Lyceum’, Macmillan’s Magazine (1884); Lewis Carroll, ‘The Stage and the Spirit of Reverence', Theatre (1888); William Winter, Shadows of the Stage (1906); William Archer, ‘Macbeth and Common Sense’, Murray’s Magazine (1889); A G L ,‘Irving’s Macbeth’, Poet-lore (1889); Percy Fitzgerald, 'Macbeth', Theatre (1889); Anon., [review of Macbeth], Morning Post (1888); Edward Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self (1931) [excerpt]; Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949) [excerpt]; George Bernard Shaw, ‘Blaming the Bard’, Saturday Review (1896); R Warwick Bond, ‘Cymbeline at the Lyceum’, Fortnightly Review (1896); Clement Scott, The Drama Of Yesterday and To-Day (1899) [excerpt]; Bram Stoker, ‘The Art of Ellen Terry’, Playgoer (1901–2); Bernard Partridge, ‘Fifty Years A Queen (An Author’s Tribute)’, Punch (1906); Basil Dean, Seven Ages (1970) [excerpt]; Kate Terry Gielgud, An Autobiography (1953) [excerpt]; 'Miss Ellen Terry’s Jubilee Benefit’, Review of Reviews (1906); ‘The Winter’s Tale Revived at His Majesty’s Theatre’, Illustrated London News (1906); B W Findon, ‘The Play and Its Story’, Play Pictorial (1906); 'Miss Ellen Terry: Recital Programme' (1912); 'Miss Ellen Terry in her Charming Recital' [programme]; Christopher St John, 'Introduction', in Ellen Terry, Four Lectures on Shakespeare (1932); Ellen Terry, Four Lectures on Shakespeare (1932) [excerpt]; Christopher St John, The First Actress (1911) [excerpt]; Cariacature of Ellen Terry as Suffragette; ‘Miss Ellen Terry at the Haymarket’, Academy (1911); ‘Shakespeare’s Heroines by Ellen Terry’, Review of Reviews (1910); Ellen Terry, 'The Women of Shakespeare'; Basil Dean, Seven Ages (1970) [excerpt]; Anon., ‘The Last Rosalind’, Theatre (1885); Oscar Wilde, ‘Shakespeare and Stage Costume’, Nineteenth Century (1885); William Archer, ‘A Well-Graced Actress’, National Review (1886); Henry James, The Scenic Art of Henry James (1949) [excerpt]; Harry How, 'Illustrated Interview No. XVII: Ellen Terry', Strand (1892); Anon., ‘Miss Ellen Terry on Operatic Acting’, Magazine of Music (1893); Joseph Knight et al, ‘Who is the Greatest Living Actress – And Why?', Idler (1895); Clement Scott, ‘The New Dictator’, Theatre (1895); G B S, ‘The Silver Key’, Saturday Review (1897); Austin Brereton, ‘Ellen Terry, Player Queen’, English Illustrated Magazine (1897); T Edgar Pemberton, Ellen Terry and Her Sisters (1902) [excerpt]; Christopher St John, Ellen Terry (1907) [excerpt]; ‘Henry Irving and Ellen Terry’, Bookman (1908); H M Walbrook, ‘Great Acting in Shakespeare’, Pall Mall Magazine (1910); Anon., ‘Kate Douglas Wiggin and Ellen Terry’, Bookman (1911); 'Editorial', Freewoman (1911); Alice Comyns Carr, ‘Ellen Terry: Recollections of a Long Friendship’, Fortnightly Review (1922); Ivor Brown, ‘To the Unknown Goddess’, Saturday Review (1928); Stephen Gwynn, ‘Ebb and Flow’, Fortnightly Review (1928); Edward Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry and Her Secret Self (1931); Virginia Woolf, ‘Ellen Terry’, New Statesman (1941); Graham Robertson, Time Was: The Reminiscences of W Graham Robertson (1931) [excerpt]; Ernest Milton, ‘Heart and Mind’, Edy: Recollections of Edith Craig (1949); Margaret Webster, The Same Only Different: Five Generations of a Great Family (1969) [excerpts]; Rebecca West, 'New Light on Ellen Terry' (1932); Christopher St John, ‘Ellen Terry’s Shrine’, Sackbut (1933); 'The Ellen Terry Memorial' [leaflet]
The archival repositories on Ellen Terry are numerous and widespread. This physical obstacle, together with the fact of her prolific epistolary output and the hitherto uncatalogued state of her own archive, has rendered many questions frustratingly unanswered. This collection of essays tackles some of these challenges and explores the spheres of influence of the Victorian actress. Established experts and new researchers drawn from an international field, reassess the performances and cultural significance of Ellen Terry, her daughter Edith Craig (1869–1947) and her son Edward Gordon Craig (1872–1966), as well as Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll and some less familiar figures.
1 Ellen Terry and Her Circle: Formal Introductions and Informal Encounters – Katharine Cockin
Part One: Ellen Terry's Influences on others
2 Introduction: Ellen Terry’s Lost Lives – Nina Auerbach
3 Ellen Terry, Bram Stoker and the Lyceum’s Vampires – Catherine Wynne
4 Ellen Terry and G F Watts, 'Blasted with Ecstasy' – Veronica Franklin Gould
5 The Burden of Eternal Youth: Ellen Terry and The Mistress of the Robes – Jenny Bloodworth
6 Suffrage and Shakespeare: Speaking like a Citizen – Katherine E Kelly
Part Two: Family influences
7 Introduction: Edward Gordon Craig: Prophet or Charlatan? – Michael Holroyd
8 E W G and E G C: Father and Son – Mike Walton
9 In the Looking-Glass: Lewis Carroll's Reflections on Victorian Actresses – Richard Foulkes
10 Edith Craig’s staging of Claudel in the European context of art theatre – Roberta Gandolfi
11 Velona Pilcher – Charlotte Purkis
12 Ellen Terry: Preserving the Relics and Creating the Brand – Katharine Cockin
13 Describing the Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Archive – Julian Halliwell and Katharine Cockin"
Contents:
Introducing the Literary North; K.Cockin
'The Chimneyed City': Imagining the North in Victorian Literature; J.Guy
'By the People, For the People': The Literary North and the Local Press 1880-1914; J.Hewitt
The Sublime and Satanic North: The Potteries in George Moore's A Mummer's Wife (1885) and Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns (1902); A.Heilmann
Clog-dancers and Clay: The Geography of Arnold Bennett's North in Clayhanger; R.Robbins
'Dirty Old Town': The Presentation of the Northern Cityscape in Ewan MacColl's Landscape with Chimneys; C.Warden
'The North, My World': W.H. Auden's Pennine Ways; A.Sharpe
Northern Yobs: Representations of Youth in 1950s Writing: Hoggart, Sillitoe and Waterhouse; N.Bentley
The Unknown City: Hull and the North in the poetry of Larkin, Dunn and Didsbury; S.O'Brien
'Northern Working-class Spectator Sports': Tony Harrison's Continuous; J.Gill
North-east Childhood: Representations of the North-east of England in the Work of Robert Westall; N.Dalrymple
'Where you going now?': Themes of Alienation and Belonging in the North-east in Children's Literature; R.Lee
The North in Children's Fiction; T.Cosslett
The Literary Response to Moss Side, Manchester: Fact or (Genre) Fiction?; L.Pearce
Locating the Literary North; K.Cockin
Selected Bibliography
Index"
The collection is organized so as to provide some historical coverage of this key period; to allow comparative analysis of different genres; and to demonstrate the variety of concerns and discourses which defined this campaign. It has been edited by a team of academics with long experience of researching and teaching in the field of women's suffrage.
Terry's correspondence was both exuberant and extensive. Despite falling victim to selective destruction, the remaining letters provide a fascinating insight into the dynamics of Victorian theatre, as well as the difficultes of life for a woman maintaining a successful public persona while raising two children as a single parent.
Contributors: Claire Chambers, Donna Cox, Katharine Cox, Julie Ellam, Mike Greaney, Sean Matthews, Ruvani Ransinha, Susan Watkins, Patricia Waugh.
The North and South project aims to challenge stereotypes about the North and South by generating productive debate and pursuing archival, literary and historical research focusing on the period 1837-1947 in a collaboration between staff at the Universities of Hull and Southampton, led by Professor Katharine Cockin. Both cities shared similar experiences during both First and Second World Wars as conduits for trade and migration but their different regional locations also shaped these histories.
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‘Hidden Hull: Uncovering Andrew Marvell's lost city’
Hull has been called England’s most poetic city, but what can poetry from Hull teach us about the urban landscape of the city itself? The Hull poet and MP Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is today recognized alongside Milton as one of the most important poets of the English Civil War period, but Marvell’s poetry is also important for what it can tell us about the city Marvell grew up in and later served for twenty years as one of its two members of parliament. Little remains today of Marvell’s Hull: much of the medieval fabric of the city was destroyed in the English Civil War, including the Charterhouse Hospital – Marvell’s boyhood home until 1641 – and the nearby Beverley Gate, famous as the site where the following year King Charles I was refused entry into Hull – an act of defiance that helped spark the Civil War. With a focus on these two medieval landmarks from Marvell’s boyhood, this session will draw on a range of eyewitness accounts – maps, images, and written records – to reconstruct a city now lost beneath the Hull we know today. We will assess the influence of this lost city on Marvell’s own poetry, exploring how England’s most poetic city is itself ‘hidden’ beneath the poetry of one of its most significant poets.
Dr Stewart Mottram is a lecturer in English Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull. He has published widely on the themes of empire and ruin in writing by Shakespeare and his contemporaries and he is currently working on an AHRC-funded project exploring the representation and significance of ruins in Renaissance literature. Andrew Marvell's own relationship with ruins is a key focus for the project, with an exhibition on Marvell and medieval Hull opening at the Hull History Centre in autumn 2015. You can follow the project on Twitter @RenRuins.
What is Northerness? Where does it begin and end? Are parts of the South more like the North than others, and if so, what are the things they have in common that bring them together - religion, art, sport, a certain stubborn pride in being different? While not offering answers to these questions, John Wedgwood Clarke has made a habit of exploring topographical and metaphorical territories of the North through his poetry, and opening up links between them and his native Cornwall. In this session, he’ll be talking about how he’s used sites in Yorkshire to explore themes of being ‘in between’, ecology, embodied language and the transformative effects of the otherness of place. He’ll draw from recent commissions and Arts Council-funded public art projects including, York Curiouser, Sea Swim, Dictionary of Stone and Watercycle. John Wedgwood Clarke’s first full collection, Ghost Pot, explores the North Yorkshire Coast between Flamborough and Saltburn and was described as ‘a masterpiece that rewards continual rereading’ by Bernard O’Donoghue.
Dr John Wedgwood Clarke is lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull and regularly collaborates with artists, curators and scientists on public art projects. In 2011-12 he was Leverhulme Poet in Residence at the Marine Biology Department at the University of Hull. His first full collection Ghost Pot was published in 2013. It was selected as an Emerging Voice' by the Poetry Book Society and for Read Regional by New Writing North. He has also published two pamphlets: Sea Swim (2012) and In Between (2014).
In 866, the first Viking Great Army established itself at York and remained there for the next 80 years. The army was led by the five Ragnarssons – Ivar the Boneless, Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye, Bjorn Ironside, Halfdan and Ubba. According to medieval Scandinavian legend, their motive was to avenge the killing of their father, Ragnar Hairy-Breeches, by the usurper King of York, Ella, by casting him into a snake-pit. This talk explores Ragnar’s life and loves, his renown as a dragon-slayer, his archetypical Viking ending at York and the huge influence his ‘Death-Song’ had on the English literary scene a thousand years later.
Dr Martin Arnold has published books on Icelandic sagas and the Vikings, and has written scholarly articles on subjects ranging from Old Norse poetry to trolls. His latest book, Thor: Myth to Marvel, was listed in The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year, 2011. He is currently writing Dragons: A Cultural History (forthcoming 2015).
Philip Larkin will surely feature in our year as City of Culture in 2017 as the most famous and popular writer in modern times to dwell in and write about Hull. His poetry and that of others like him who have by turns celebrated and criticised the city’s qualities will be taken as the basis to revive the suggestion that Hull is a ‘poetic’ place. This session will look at what Larkin and others actually have to say about Hull and ask how people today engage with these poems and the ideas they contain.
Dr Daniel Weston is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century English Literature at the University of Hull. He has research interests in a broad span of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry, fiction and non-fiction prose. He is currently working on a study of contemporary poetry addressing issues of environment and ecology.
James Underwood is a PhD candidate and part-time tutor in the Department of English, University of Hull. His research, funded by a University scholarship, focuses on identity in the work of Philip Larkin.
download here the conference programme for the Hrotsvit 2014 conference held at the University of Hull
In May 2014 Dr Anna Birch directed a reading of Paphnutius by Hrotsvit, tenth-century nun, at the University of Hull conference on Hrotsvit. The audience and performers engaged in discussion after the play reading and here is the recording.
This guide describes the papers of Ellen Terry and Edith Craig at the National Trust property, Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent, UK. Smallhythe Place was the home of Ellen Terry, established as a memorial to Terry by her daughter Edith Craig and given to the National Trust in 1939.
The papers are available for consultation by researchers from 2009, either at Smallhythe Place or the British Library. Each record in the database is marked SMA (Smallhythe Place) or BL (British Library) to indicate the location of the document which it describes. If you wish to look at the papers held at the British Library, contact:
Manuscripts Reference Enquiries Team
The British Library
96 Euston Road
LONDON
NW1 2DB
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 0207 412 7513
For those at Smallhythe, contact the National Trust at Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent, UK.
Please note that none of these documents is held at the University of Hull, UK.
This project was funded by the AHRC (2006-08). Earlier stages were funded by the University of Hull and Society for Theatre Research (2001-2005).