id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_trma2ndy75a2hbmk4eiaqsx6am Matthew Franks Laboratory, Library, Database: London's Avant-Garde Drama Societies and Ephemeral Repertoire 2017.0 45 .pdf application/pdf 12854 712 56 In November 1901, a London play-producing organization known as the Stage Society sent Bernard Shaw's play three years earlier, and although the Stage Society's members-only such group in Britain, the Independent Theatre Society, in order to stage a performance of that subscription societies virtually assembled the very idea of a modern dramatic repertoire like prospectuses, pamphlets, and subscription lists played an important role in selfconsciously fashioning the concept of a modern dramatic repertoire in the first place. Subscription lists and reports of Stage Society audiences in the public press gendered playgoing as female and playwriting as male; both were thought to influence the repertoire. to imagine a performance repertoire, like the lists of plays embedded in subscription repertory, or short run, model.46 The Stage Society premiered first plays by Granville-Barker, lists and reports of the Stage Society's membership in the public press diagramed a division play-producing societies, private theater clubs were not subject to pre-performance ./cache/work_trma2ndy75a2hbmk4eiaqsx6am.pdf ./txt/work_trma2ndy75a2hbmk4eiaqsx6am.txt