All Outputs (9)

British theatre and performance 1900-1950 (2015)
Book
D’Monté, R. (2015). British theatre and performance 1900-1950. London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

British theatre from 1900-1950 has been subject to radical re-evaluation with plays from the period setting theatres alight and gaining critical acclaim once again; this book explains why, presenting a comprehensive survey of the theatre and how it s... Read More about British theatre and performance 1900-1950.

Moving back to “Home” and “Nation:” Women dramatists, 1938-1945 (2013)
Book Chapter
D'Monté, R. (2013). Moving back to “Home” and “Nation:” Women dramatists, 1938-1945. In T. Gomez-Reus, & T. Gifford (Eds.), Women in Transit Through Literary Liminal Spaces. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

The blurring of public/private space during the Second World War also effected a privileging of the female voice and experience by redrawing loci of work and home, and by politicising the domestic. In doing this, some of the plays of the time can be... Read More about Moving back to “Home” and “Nation:” Women dramatists, 1938-1945.

Drama, 1920-1945 (2012)
Book Chapter
D'Monté, R. (2012). Drama, 1920-1945. In M. Joannou (Ed.), The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945: Volume Eight (182-198). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Women dramatists were surprisingly well represented between 1920 and 1945, and include such figures as Muriel Box, Clemence Dane, Cicely Hamilton, Gertrude Jennings, Esther McCracken, Dodie Smith, and G. B. Stern. Reasons for this can be traced to th... Read More about Drama, 1920-1945.

Passion, penury and psychosis: Representations of the spinster by interwar dramatists (2012)
Book Chapter
D'Monté, R. (2012). Passion, penury and psychosis: Representations of the spinster by interwar dramatists. In J. Dolan, & E. Tincknell (Eds.), Aging Femininities: Troubling Representations (3-16). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press

The impact of first-wave feminism and the First World War led to the spinster - someone who is past her marriageable date - becoming a repository during the interwar period for society’s fears and anxieties about the place of the older woman, as well... Read More about Passion, penury and psychosis: Representations of the spinster by interwar dramatists.

April de Angelis (2011)
Book Chapter
D'Monté, R. (2011). April de Angelis. In A. Sierz, M. Middeke, & P. P. Schnierer (Eds.), Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights. London: Methuen Drama

Modern literature (2010)
Journal Article
Johnston, M., Creasy, M., Saunders, G., D'Monte, R., Bentley, N., Randall, B., …Jaffe, A. (2010). Modern literature. Year's Work in English Studies, 89(1), 790-901. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maq015

Review of work written about pre-1950 British drama during 2006

Changing form: Stage, film and TV adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (2009)
Book Chapter
D'Monté, R. (2009). Changing form: Stage, film and TV adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. In R. Carroll (Ed.), Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities (163-173). London: Continuum

Feminizing the nation and the country house: Women dramatists, 1938-1941 (2009)
Book Chapter
D'Monté, R. (2009). Feminizing the nation and the country house: Women dramatists, 1938-1941. In D. James, & P. Tew (Eds.), New Versions of Pastoral: Post-Romantic, Modern and Contemporary Responses to the Tradition (139-155). Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Voicing abuse/voicing gender (2006)
Book Chapter
D'Monté, R. (2006). Voicing abuse/voicing gender. In C. Wallace (Ed.), Monologues: Theatre, Performance, Subjectivity (208-231). Prague: Littereraria Pragensia Books

Confessional memoirs have become increasingly popular during the few decades, and it is interesting to note that this phenomenon has also occurred on the stage. This has been spurred through the use of the theatrical monologue, which creates an inti... Read More about Voicing abuse/voicing gender.