The Rival Actresses
Author: Georges Ohnet
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 342
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Author: Georges Ohnet
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Felicity Nussbaum
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-10-11
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0812206894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their audiences, celebrated actresses were among the first women to achieve social mobility, cultural authority, and financial independence. In fact, Nussbaum contends, the eighteenth century might well be called the "age of the actress" in the British theater, given women's influence on the dramatic repertory and, through it, on the definition of femininity. Treating individual star actresses who helped spark a cult of celebrity—especially Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, Catherine Clive, Margaret Woffington, Frances Abington, and George Anne Bellamy—Rival Queens reveals the way these women animated issues of national identity, property, patronage, and fashion in the context of their dramatic performances. Actresses intentionally heightened their commercial appeal by catapulting the rivalries among themselves to center stage. They also boldly challenged in importance the actor-managers who have long dominated eighteenth-century theater history and criticism. Felicity Nussbaum combines an emphasis on the actresses themselves with close analysis of their diverse roles in works by major playwrights, including George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe, Colley Cibber, Arthur Murphy, David Garrick, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Richard Sheridan. Hers is a comprehensive and original argument about the importance of actresses as the first modern subjects, actively shaping their public identities to make themselves into celebrated properties.
Author: Edward Robins
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 534
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Suzanne Aspden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1107067766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.
Author: Edward Dutton Cook
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: 1876
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip H. Highfill
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780809305186
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 372
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dutton Cook
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 346
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