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Author | : Renata Kobetts Miller |
Publisher | : EUP |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-08-25 |
Genre | : Actresses in literature |
ISBN | : 9781474439503 |
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This book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences.
Author | : Renata Kobetts Miller |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2018-09-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474439519 |
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A fresh perspective on the history of the radical left in inter-war Scotland.
Author | : Gail Marshall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1998-05-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521620161 |
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Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Drawing on evidence of theatrical fictions, visual representations and popular culture's assimilation of the sculptural image, as well as theatrical productions, she examines some of the manifestations of the sculptural metaphor on the legitimate English stage, and its implications for the actress in the later nineteenth century. Within the legitimate theatre, the 'Galatea-aesthetic' positioned actresses as predominantly visual and sexual commodities whose opportunities for interpretative engagement with their plays were minimal. This dominant aesthetic was effectively challenged only at the end of the century, with the advent of the 'New' drama, and the emergence of a body of autobiographical writings by actresses.
Author | : Kerry Powell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1997-12-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521471672 |
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This important book chronicles the growing role of women playwrights, managers and actresses in the Victorian theatre.
Author | : Michael Baker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317399102 |
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Originally published in 1978. Between 1830 and 1890 the English theatre became recognisably modern. Standards of acting and presentation improved immeasurably, new playwrights emerged, theatres became more comfortable and more intimate and playgoing became a national pastime with all classes. The actor’s status rose accordingly. In 1830 he had been little better than a social outcast; by 1880 he had become a member of a skilled, relatively well-paid and respected profession which was attracting new recruits in unprecedented numbers. This is a social history of Victorian actors which seeks to show how wider social attitudes and developments affected the changing status of acting as a profession. Thus the stage’s relationship with the professional world and the other arts is dealt with and is followed by an assessment of the moral and religious background which played so decisive a part in contemporary attitudes to actors. The position of actresses in particular is given special consideration. Many non-theatrical sources are used here and there is a survey of salaries and working conditions in the theatre to show how the rising social status of the actor was matched by changes in his theatrical standing. A novel area of study is covered in tracing the changing social composition of the acting profession over the period and in exploring the case-histories of three generations of performers.
Author | : H. C. Shuttleworth |
Publisher | : Kessinger Publishing |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2009-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781104386986 |
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author | : Janice Norwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-05-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781526133328 |
Download Victorian Touring Actresses Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Victorian touring actresses provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century theatre and the careers of previously neglected British women who had once starred at home and abroad. Chapters explore debuts, establishing a name, working life in the UK, touring North America, long-distance colonial touring, management, offstage life and ageing.
Author | : Clara Morris |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2020-08-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752414553 |
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Reproduction of the original: Life on the Stage by Clara Morris
Author | : Rosamond Gilder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Actresses |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kirsten Pullen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2005-02-17 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521541022 |
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