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The Cambridge companion to the actress / edited by Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to literature.
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in the theater.
- Actresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 348 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Revolution, legislation and autonomy / Gilli Bush-Bailey
- Spectacle, intellect and authority : the actress in the eighteenth century / Elizabeth Eger
- Cultural formations : the nineteenth-century touring actress and her international audiences / Gail Marshall
- The actress as photographic icon : from early photography to early film / David Mayer
- The actress and the profession : training in England in the twentieth century / Lucie Sutherland
- Out of the ordinary : exercising restraint in the post-war years / John Stokes
- Icons and labourers : some political actresses / Tony Howard
- The actress as manager / Jo Robinson
- By herself : the actress and autobiography, 1755-1939 / Viv Gardner
- The screen actress from silence to sound / Christine Gledhill
- Side doors and service elevators : racial constraints for actresses of colour / Lynette Goddard
- Mirroring men : the actress in drag / Jacky Bratton
- 'Studies in hysteria' : actress and courtesan, Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs Patrick Campbell / Elaine Aston
- Beyond the muse : the Spanish actress as collaborator / Maria M. Delgado
- Going solo : an historical perspective on the actress and the monologue / Maggie B. Gale
- Changing Shakespeare : new possibilties for the modern actress / Penny Gay.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-139-81738-8
- 1-139-00134-5
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