Download or read book Three Tragic Actresses written by Michael R. Booth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the careers of three very different but pivotal actresses, placing their art in context.

Download or read book The French Actress and Her English Audience written by John Stokes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of how French actresses were received by English audiences.

Download or read book Women Theatre and Performance written by Maggie Barbara Gale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection addresses key questions in women's theatre history and retrieves a number of previously "hidden" histories of women performers. The essays range across the past 300 years--topics covered include Susanna Centlivre and the notion of intertheatricality; gender and theatrical space; the repositioning of women performers such as Wagner's Muse, Willhelmina Schröder-Devrient, the Comédie Français' "Mademoiselle Mars," Mme. Arnould-Plessey, and the actresses of the Russian serf theatre.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Actress written by John Stokes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine, from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the actress throughout history and across continents. Each essay focuses on a particular stage in her development, for example professionalism in the seventeenth century; the emergence of the actress/critic during the Romantic period and, later on, of the actress as best selling autobiographer; the coming of the drama schools which led to today's emphasis on the actress as a highly-trained working woman. Chapters consider the image of the actress as a courtesan, as a 'muse', as a representative of the 'ordinary' housewife, and as a political activist. The collection also contains essays on forms, genres and traditions - on cross dressing, solo performance, racial constraints, and recent Shakespeare - as well as on the actress in early photography and on film. Its unique range will fascinate, surprise and instruct theatre-goers and students alike.

Download or read book Carrying All before Her written by Chelsea Phillips and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of celebrity stage actresses in the long eighteenth century created a class of women who worked in the public sphere while facing considerable scrutiny about their offstage lives. Such powerful celebrity women used the cultural and affective significance of their reproductive bodies to leverage audience support and interest to advance their careers, and eighteenth-century London patent theatres even capitalized on their pregnancies. Carrying All Before Her uses the reproductive histories of six celebrity women (Susanna Mountfort Verbruggen, Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, George Anne Bellamy, Sarah Siddons, and Dorothy Jordan) to demonstrate that pregnancy affected celebrity identity, impacted audience reception and interpretation of performance, changed company repertory and altered company hierarchy, influenced the development and performance of new plays, and had substantial economic consequences for both women and the companies for which they worked. Deepening the fields of celebrity, theatre, and women's studies, as well as social and medical histories, Phillips reveals an untapped history whose relevance and impact persists today.

Download or read book New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco Roman World written by Ronnie Ancona and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Pomeroy's groundbreaking Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves introduced scholars, students, and general readers to an exciting new area of inquiry: women in classical antiquity. Almost fifty years later, New Directions in the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World builds upon and moves beyond Pomeroy's seminal work to represent the next step in this interdisciplinary field. The "new directions" for the study of women in antiquity included in this volume of newly commissioned essays feature new methodological questions to be asked, new time periods to be explored, new objects of study, as well as new information to be uncovered. In addressing these new directions, the editors have gathered a distinguished group of contributors that includes historians, philologists, archaeologists, art historians, and specialists in subfields like ancient medicine, ancient law, papyrology, and epigraphy. While some chapters focus primarily on Greece or Rome, others straddle or go beyond these artificial boundaries in interesting ways. While the focus of the volume is antiquity, the issues it raises will be of interest also to those studying women and theorizing the study of women in other periods as well. The volume will help readers to see women in antiquity with fresh eyes and to view anew important issues related to women today.

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Download or read book Literary Digest a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stuart Women Playwrights 1613 1713 written by Pilar Cuder Domínguez and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Women Playwrights, 1613-1713 examines English women writers' tragedies and tragicomedies in the seventeenth century. Through this one-hundred year period, major changes in dramatic form and ideology are traced in women's plays. The study represents a major overhaul of current theories of the evolution of English drama as well as offering an unprecedented reconstruction of the genealogy of seventeenth-century English women playwrights.

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Download or read book Historical and literary tour of a foriegner in England and Scotland from the Fr of A Pichot written by Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance written by Lizbeth Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance presents the most influential and widely-known, critical work on gender and performing arts, together with exciting and provocative new writings. It provides systematically arranged articles to guide the reader from topic to topic, and specially linked articles by scholars and teachers to explain key issues and put the extracts in context. This comprehensive volume: * reviews women's contributions to theatre history * includes contributions from many of the top academics in this discipline * examines how theatre has represented women over the centuries * introduces readers to major theoretical approaches and more complex questions about gender, the body and cross-dressing * offers an international perspective, including material from post-apartheid South Africa and post-communist Russia.

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Download or read book The Yale Shakespeare The tragedy of Richard the third ed by J R Crawford written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dramatic Reminiscences or Actors and Actresses in England and America written by George Vandenhoff and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: