Early feminist scenography - The Yellow Wallpaper

Day 11. I have a friend with whom I exchange books. She recently gave me two ones with yellow covers. First I read Charlotte Perkins Gilman, later Stetson's (1860-1935) short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1982) in Swedish translation. As the titel suggests a yellow wallpaper is the protagonist, a truly scenographic agent, in full force. A woman is told by her physician husband that she is ill (depressed and hysterical) and that she will be cured if she refrains from reading and writing. She does not get better, and the wallpaper in the bedroom starts revealing the gendered power structures at play in the situation. Early feminist scenography, or early scenographic writing one might say. So, what is often termed "a background" in the theatre or in the home, is never neutral, never innocent. Beware of the wallpaper...