Women on the stage in early modern France : 1540-1750 / Virginia Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scott, Virginia, 1934-2014, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actresses--France--Biography.

Actresses.

Theater--France--History.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown Marie Ferré - who signed a contract for 12 livres a year in 1545 to perform the 'antiquailles de Rome or other histories, moralities, farces, and acrobatics' in the provinces - to the queens of the eighteenth-century Paris stage, whose 'adventures' have overshadowed their artistic triumphs. The book also investigates the ways in which actresses made invaluable contributions to the development of the French theatre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and looks at the 'afterlives' of such women as Armande Béjart, Marquise Du Parc, Charlotte Desmares, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Hippolyte Clairon in biographies, plays, and films.

Contents:

The actress and the anecdote

"So perverse was her wantonness": antitheatricalism and the actress

In the beginning: "12 livres per year"

"Those diverting little ways": 1630-1640

Mademoiselle L'Étoile': 1640-1700

"Embellished by art": 1680-1720

Lives and afterlives: 1700-2010.

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. The actress and the anecdote; 2. 'So perverse was her wantonness': antitheatricalism and the actress; 3. In the beginning: 'Twelve Livres per year'; 4. 'Those diverting little ways': 1630-1640; 5. 'Mademoiselle L'Étoile': 1640-1700; 6. 'Embellished by art': 1680-1720; 7. Lives and afterlives: 1700-2010; Works consulted.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-85032-8

1-107-21219-7

1-282-65537-X

9786612655371

0-511-77594-6

0-511-77412-5

0-511-77670-5

0-511-77305-6

0-511-77706-X

0-511-77518-0

OCLC:

645098297