General:Mapping Theatrical Relationships
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Name: D.A. Hadfield
Email: dhadfiel@uoguelph.ca
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Role: part-time instructor
Institution: University of Guelph
Field of Study/Creative Endeavor: theatre historiography, literary production, contemporary Canadian & 19th C British theatre
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I am a sessional instructor at University of Guelph and St. Jerome's University (Waterloo), where I've taught pretty much everything from the medieval lyric to contemporary drama. My main research focus is in theatre historiography, especially feminist theatre. In practical terms, I'm interested in investigating the material conditions in which theatre is produced, and what effect they have both on the production of the theatrical event itself and on the way it is subsequently preserved and valued. On frequent occasions, this net has widened to consider non-theatrical literary production as well.
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My current research project involves women playwrights of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, specifically those who had some kind of relationship with George Bernard Shaw. Shaw has been historically positioned as the predominant playwright of “The Woman Question” and its subsequent reimaginings through suffragette and feminist drama, a position buoyed by his extra-theatrical involvement in women’s rights issues. So, despite his oft-quoted insistence that he would not speak for women because women were more than capable of speaking for themselves, Shaw’s voice is the one that history has preserved to speak about women’s dramatic representations. At its most basic, the project began in wondering why that was.
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