Tracing Sanna kvinnor across the Nordic Theatre Landscape: Intermediaries and Forces of Circulation
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Established historiographical accounts suggest that, following Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, plays by women playwrights made Swedish theatre into a feminist tribune for a brief period in the early 1880s but that their relevance had diminished by the latter half of the decade. By examining the circulation of Anne Charlotte Leffler’s Sanna kvinnor [True Women], 1883, in Nordic theatre between 1883 and 1925, this article critically evaluates these prevalent accounts by inclusively and comprehensively exploring previously overlooked empirical sources in now-digitized newspaper databases. This return to the archives aims at mapping the circulation of Sanna kvinnor, investigating the crucial forces driving its dissemination across the Nordic theatrical landscape, by considering the most important intermediaries: Danish playwright and priest Jens Christian Hostrup and his wife Elisabeth, and Swedish actor Emil Hillberg.
Author: Birgitta Lindh Estelle
Institution: University of Gothenburg
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,489
OpenAlex ID: W4403425809