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Author: Michael R. Booth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-10-03
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780521411158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the careers of three very different but pivotal actresses, placing their art in context.
Author: John Stokes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-02-17
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521843003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed study of how French actresses were received by English audiences.
Author: Edward Jewitt Wheeler
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 1980
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 1708
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Penny Farfan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-10-14
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780521837804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen, Modernism, and Performance is an interdisciplinary 2004 study that looks at a variety of texts and modes of performance in order to clarify the position of women within - and in relation to - modern theatre history. Considering drama, fiction and dance, as well as a range of performance events such as suffrage demonstrations, lectures, and legal trials, Penny Farfan expands on theatre historical narratives that note the centrality of female characters in male-authored modern plays but that do not address the efforts of women artists to develop alternatives both to mainstream theatre practice and to the patriarchal avant garde. Focusing on Henrik Ibsen, Elizabeth Robins, Ellen Terry, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Edith Craig, Radclyffe Hall and Isadora Duncan, Farfan identifies different objectives, strategies, possibilities and limitations of feminist-modernist performance practice and suggests how the artists in question transformed the representation of gender in art and life.
Author: Mary Luckhurst
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-10-18
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0230523846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheatre has always been a site for selling outrage and sensation, a place where public reputations are made and destroyed in spectacular ways. This is the first book to investigate the construction and production of celebrity in the British theatre. These exciting essays explore aspects of fame, notoriety and transgression in a wide range of performers and playwrights including David Garrick, Oscar Wilde, Ellen Terry, Laurence Olivier and Sarah Kane. This pioneering volume examines the ingenious ways in which these stars have negotiated their own fame. The essays also analyze the complex relationships between discourses of celebrity and questions of gender, spectatorship and the operation of cultural markets.
Author: Ann Thompson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780719047046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare.
Author: Sue Mcpherson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-08-07
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1040243835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 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.
Author: Sarah E. Betzer
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780271048758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the portrait art of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, focusing on his studio practice and his training of students.
Author: Helene P. Foley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2014-06-26
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0520283872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies—over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth century it became a vehicle not only for major developments in the history of American theater and dance but also for exploring critical tensions in American cultural and political life. Drawing on a wide range of sources—archival, video, interviews, and reviews—Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available.
