Author: Sandra Richards
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349099309
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
An account of the English actress's view of her own rise up to social and professional prominence from 1600 to the present. Examining the actress's experience as distinct from the actor's, this book charts her influence on each age's views of women's nature and their role in society.
Rise of the English Actress
Author: Sandra Richards
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349099309
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
An account of the English actress's view of her own rise up to social and professional prominence from 1600 to the present. Examining the actress's experience as distinct from the actor's, this book charts her influence on each age's views of women's nature and their role in society.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349099309
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
An account of the English actress's view of her own rise up to social and professional prominence from 1600 to the present. Examining the actress's experience as distinct from the actor's, this book charts her influence on each age's views of women's nature and their role in society.
The Rise of the English Actress
Author: Sandra Richards
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780333456019
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780333456019
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Actresses and Whores
Author: Kirsten Pullen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521541022
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521541022
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Prospect Before Her
Author: Olwen Hufton
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307791947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Already hailed by English critics as "one of the most important works of history to be published since the Second World War, " Olwen Hufton's fascinating and brilliantly learned study begins, in this first of two volumes, with a wide ranging exploration of women's fate in Western Europe from medieval times to the early modern age. of illustrations.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307791947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Already hailed by English critics as "one of the most important works of history to be published since the Second World War, " Olwen Hufton's fascinating and brilliantly learned study begins, in this first of two volumes, with a wide ranging exploration of women's fate in Western Europe from medieval times to the early modern age. of illustrations.
Women's Theatrical Memoirs, Part I Vol 1
Author: Sue Mcpherson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040246168
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
By the close of the Eighteenth Century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection offers accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, which provide insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040246168
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
By the close of the Eighteenth Century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre. This ten-volume facsimile collection offers accounts of the late eighteenth-century stage, which provide insights into contemporary constructions of gender, sexuality and fame.
The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance
Author: Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134707606
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134707606
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
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.
The Satirical Gaze
Author: Cindy McCreery
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199267569
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This is the first scholarly study to focus on satirical prints of women in the late eighteenth century. This was the golden age of graphic satire: thousands of prints were published, and they were viewed by nearly all sections of the population. These prints both reflected and sought to shape contemporary debate about the role of women in society. Cindy McCreery's study examines the beliefs and prejudices of Georgian England which they revealed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199267569
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This is the first scholarly study to focus on satirical prints of women in the late eighteenth century. This was the golden age of graphic satire: thousands of prints were published, and they were viewed by nearly all sections of the population. These prints both reflected and sought to shape contemporary debate about the role of women in society. Cindy McCreery's study examines the beliefs and prejudices of Georgian England which they revealed.
Auto/Biography and Identity
Author: Maggie B B. Gale
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719063329
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11 essays examine the lives and work of a variety of artists ranging from actors as working women in the eighteenth century to monologists and performance artists today. Subjects include several performers, including Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion, Ina Rozant, Susan Glaspell, Adrienne Kennedy, Emma Robinson, Lena Ashwell, Tilly Wedekind, Clare Dowie, Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin, and, in an interview, Bobby Baker, as well as essays on Latina theater and lesbians as performers constructing themselves and their community. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719063329
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11 essays examine the lives and work of a variety of artists ranging from actors as working women in the eighteenth century to monologists and performance artists today. Subjects include several performers, including Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion, Ina Rozant, Susan Glaspell, Adrienne Kennedy, Emma Robinson, Lena Ashwell, Tilly Wedekind, Clare Dowie, Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin, and, in an interview, Bobby Baker, as well as essays on Latina theater and lesbians as performers constructing themselves and their community. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Representing Female Artistic Labour, 1848-1890
Author: Patricia Zakreski
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754651031
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Looking specifically at sewing, art, writing, and acting, Zakreski shows how these professions increasingly came to be defined as 'artistic' and thus as suitable professions for middle-class women, and argues that the supposedly degrading activity of paid work could be transformed into a refining experience for women. Rather than consigning working women to the margins of patriarchal culture, then, her study shows how representations of creative women, by authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Craik, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge, participated in and shaped new forms of mainstream culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754651031
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Looking specifically at sewing, art, writing, and acting, Zakreski shows how these professions increasingly came to be defined as 'artistic' and thus as suitable professions for middle-class women, and argues that the supposedly degrading activity of paid work could be transformed into a refining experience for women. Rather than consigning working women to the margins of patriarchal culture, then, her study shows how representations of creative women, by authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dinah Craik, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge, participated in and shaped new forms of mainstream culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Sisters of Gore
Author: John C. Franceschina
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134820895
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The plays collected in Sisters of Gore span the development of Gothic melodrama from the 1790s to the 1840s.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134820895
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The plays collected in Sisters of Gore span the development of Gothic melodrama from the 1790s to the 1840s.