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This chapter provides a short general introduction by the two co-editors outlining the volume’s scope, structure and intentions, together with brief discussion of themes that recur throughout it plus a summary of other work available in the field. This is a volume which brings together academics and practitioners to chronicle and celebrate the courage, determination and achievements, despite multiple obstacles, of women on stage across the ages and around the globe; its coverage extends from ancient Greece to present-day India via the United States, Soviet Russia, Europe, Australasia, South Africa and Japan.
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Sewell, J., Smout, C. (2019). General Introduction. In: Sewell, J., Smout, C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23828-5_1
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