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Louise H. Forsyth

Louise H. Forsyth has always loved performance and theatre. As an amateur lover of the stage, she has acted, sung, danced, written, directed, produced, translated, stage managed, served as props manager, and hung out as much as she could as spectator. Woven into an amateur obsession with theatre has been her professional life, where she wrote two theses on the classic French writer of theatrical comedy, Molière, taught courses and supervised theses in theatre, drama, and dramatic literature, wrote scholarly studies about French and Québec playwrights, and theorized about acting and dramatic writing. Her areas of academic specialization are feminist performance and dramaturgy in Québec. Along with her passion for what the women of Québec have written for theatre, she has been engaged for quite some time with developing theories of dramaturgy and acting au féminin, along with revealing the sources of tenacious sexism in the practices and conventions for doing theatre, for studying and evaluating it, and for recounting its history. In short, she has been wondering for quite some time why womenâ??s roles have tended to remain stereotypical in works for stage, TV and film, why theatre done by womenâ??when its perspective is explicitly derived from a womanâ??s point of viewâ??is still easily dismissed with a summary shrug as deserving only condescending scorn, why womenâ??s theatrical experimentation is so rarely discussed by scholars as serious theoretical work or used by them in their own theoretical reflections, and why the silence of critics on women and their richly creative activities has not yet been overcome when it comes to their accounts of theatre history.

Books by Louise H. Forsyth

Ravage of Life

by (author) Evelyne de la Chenelière
translated by Louise H. Forsyth

Laurier Poetry Pack #3

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

edited by Robert Budde, Alison Calder, Louise H. Forsyth, Catherine Hunter, Susan Knutson, Tanis MacDonald, Nicole Markotić, Laura Moss, Owen Percy & Leslie C. Sanders

Laurier Poetry Pack #1

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

by (author) Louis Cabri, Louise H. Forsyth, Karl E. Jirgens & Nicole Markotić

Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation Volume Three

(1997-2009)

edited by Louise H. Forsyth

Two Plays: The Cage and L'Ile de la Demoiselle

The Cage and L'Ile de la Demoiselle

by (author) Anne Hébert
translated by Pamela Grant, Gregory J. Reid & Sheila Fischman
introduction by Louise H. Forsyth

Mobility of Light

The Poetry of Nicole Brossard

by (author) Nicole Brossard
edited by Louise H. Forsyth

Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation Volume Two

(1987-2003)

edited by Louise H. Forsyth

Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation Volume One

(1966-1986)

edited by Louise H. Forsyth

Nicole Brossard

Essays on Her Works

edited by Louise H. Forsyth