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Titolo |
The Cambridge companion to the actress / / edited by Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 |
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1-139-81738-8 |
1-139-00134-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 348 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge companions to literature |
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Soggetti |
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Women in the theater |
Actresses |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Revolution, legislation and autonomy / Gilli Bush-Bailey -- Spectacle, intellect and authority : the actress in the eighteenth century / Elizabeth Eger -- Cultural formations : the nineteenth-century touring actress and her international audiences / Gail Marshall -- The actress as photographic icon : from early photography to early film / David Mayer -- The actress and the profession : training in England in the twentieth century / Lucie Sutherland -- Out of the ordinary : exercising restraint in the post-war years / John Stokes -- Icons and labourers : some political actresses / Tony Howard -- The actress as manager / Jo Robinson -- By herself : the actress and autobiography, 1755-1939 / Viv Gardner -- The screen actress from silence to sound / Christine Gledhill -- Side doors and service elevators : racial constraints for actresses of colour / Lynette Goddard -- Mirroring men : the actress in drag / Jacky Bratton -- 'Studies in hysteria' : actress and courtesan, Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs Patrick Campbell / Elaine Aston -- Beyond the muse : the Spanish actress as collaborator / Maria M. Delgado -- Going solo : an historical perspective on the actress and the monologue / Maggie B. Gale -- Changing Shakespeare : new possibilties for the modern actress / Penny Gay. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine, from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the actress |
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throughout history and across continents. Each essay focuses on a particular stage in her development, for example professionalism in the seventeenth century; the emergence of the actress/critic during the Romantic period and, later on, of the actress as best selling autobiographer; the coming of the drama schools which led to today's emphasis on the actress as a highly-trained working woman. Chapters consider the image of the actress as a courtesan, as a 'muse', as a representative of the 'ordinary' housewife, and as a political activist. The collection also contains essays on forms, genres and traditions - on cross dressing, solo performance, racial constraints, and recent Shakespeare - as well as on the actress in early photography and on film. Its unique range will fascinate, surprise and instruct theatre-goers and students alike. |
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