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Author | : Amy Lehman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786454717 |
Download Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Spiritualists in the nineteenth century spoke of the "Borderland," a shadowy threshold where the living communed with the dead, and where those in the material realm could receive comfort or advice from another world. The skilled performances of mostly female actors and performers made the "Borderland" a theatre, of sorts, in which dramas of revelation and recognition were produced in the forms of seances, trances, and spiritualist lectures. This book examines some of the most fascinating American and British actresses of the Victorian era, whose performances fairly mesmerized their audiences of amused skeptics and ardent believers. It also focuses on the transformative possibilities of the spiritualist theatre, revealing how the performances allowed Victorian women to speak, act, and create outside the boundaries of their restricted social and psychological roles.
Author | : Kerry Powell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1997-12-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521471671 |
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Victorian women were exhilarated by the authoritative voice and the professional opportunity the theater offered them. In this book Kerry Powell chronicles the development of women's participation in the theater as playwrights, actresses and managers and explores the making of the Victorian actress, gender discourse and playwriting of the period, and the contributions these made to developments in the following century.
Author | : K. Newey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2005-11-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230554903 |
Download Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Women's Theatre Writing in Victorian Britain is the first book to make a comprehensive study of women playwrights in the British theatre from 1820 to 1918. It looks at how women playwrights negotiated their personal and professional identities as writers, and examines the female tradition of playwriting which dramatises the central experience of women's lives around the themes of home, the nation, and the position of women in marriage and the family. The book also includes an extensive Appendix of authors and plays, which will be a useful reference tool for students and scholars in nineteenth-century studies and theatre historians.
Author | : Tracy C. Davis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2002-03-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134934467 |
Download Actresses as Working Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and feminist theory she looks at representations of women on stage, and the meanings associated with and generated by them.
Author | : Kerry Powell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2004-02-19 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1139826425 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This 2004 Companion is designed for readers interested in the creation, production and interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian theatre, both in its own time and on the contemporary stage. The volume opens with a brief overview and introduction surveying the theatre of the time followed by an essay contextualizing the theatre within the frame of Victorian and Edwardian culture as a whole. Succeeding chapters examine specific aspects of performance, production, and theatre, including the music, the actors, stagecraft and the audiences themselves; plays and playwriting and issues of class and gender are also explored. Chapters also deal with comedy, farce and melodrama, while other essays bring forward new topics and approaches that cross the boundaries of traditional investigation, including analysis of the economics of theatre and of the theatricality of personal identity.
Author | : Gail Marshall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1998-05-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521620161 |
Download Actresses on the Victorian Stage Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Maggie B B. Gale |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780719063329 |
Download Auto/Biography and Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11 essays examine the lives and work of a variety of artists ranging from actors as working women in the eighteenth century to monologists and performance artists today. Subjects include several performers, including Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion, Ina Rozant, Susan Glaspell, Adrienne Kennedy, Emma Robinson, Lena Ashwell, Tilly Wedekind, Clare Dowie, Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin, and, in an interview, Bobby Baker, as well as essays on Latina theater and lesbians as performers constructing themselves and their community. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author | : K. Newey |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230276512 |
Download John Ruskin and the Victorian Theatre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first book to explore the involvement of John Ruskin with the popular theatre of his time. Based on original archival research, this book offers a fresh look at the aesthetic and social theories of Ruskin and his direct and indirect influence on the commercial theatre of the late nineteenth century.
Author | : Marisa Palacios Knox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108496164 |
Download Victorian Women and Wayward Reading Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explains how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity.
Author | : Anna Farkas |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2019-05-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1315405121 |
Download Women's Playwriting and the Women's Movement, 1890-1918 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The influence of the women’s movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women’s drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage campaign in the years before the First World War. Women’s Playwriting and the Women’s Movement, 1890–1918 is the first designated study of British women’s drama from a period of exceptional productivity and innovation for female playwrights. Both the British theatre and women’s position within British society underwent fundamental changes in this period, and this book shows how female dramatists carefully negotiated their position in the heated debates about women’s rights that occurred at this time, while staking out a place for themselves in an evolving theatrical landscape. Farkas also identifies the women’s movement as a key influence on the development of female-authored drama between 1890 and 1918, but argues that scholarly prioritizing of the "radicalism" of work associated with the New Woman and the suffrage campaign has had a distorting effect in the past. Ideal for scholars of British and Victorian theatre, Women’s Playwriting and the Women’s Movement, 1890–1918 offers a new perspective which emphasizes the complexity of women playwrights’ engagement with first-wave feminism and links it to the diversification of the British theatre in this period.