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Actresses as working women : their social identity in Victorian culture / / Tracy C. Davis
| Actresses as working women : their social identity in Victorian culture / / Tracy C. Davis |
| Autore | Davis Tracy C. <1960, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.4/84/082 |
| Collana | Gender and performance |
| Soggetto topico |
Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-134-93447-5
1-134-93446-7 9786610442713 0-203-20001-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE THEATRE; Family dynasties, recruitment, and career opportunities for women; The Profession's divisions of labour; Wages; SEX, GENDER, AND SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY; The Female Surplus Question and the sex ratio; The female life; Professional welfare; THE SOCIAL DYNAMIC AND 'RESPECTABILITY'; Actresses' defiance of socioeconomic prescriptions; Actresses and prostitutes; Sexual harassment; The quintessential sexual terror; ACTRESSES AND THE MISE EN SCNE
Costuming the erotic topographyGesture: 'Every little movement has a meaning of its own'; Figural composition in the mise en scne; Erotic verification; THE GEOGRAPHY OF SEX IN SOCIETY AND THEATRE; The erotic neighbourhood outside the playhouse; Erotic zones within the playhouse; Forestalling the erotic; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450198703321 |
Davis Tracy C. <1960, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Actresses as working women : their social identity in Victorian culture / / Tracy C. Davis
| Actresses as working women : their social identity in Victorian culture / / Tracy C. Davis |
| Autore | Davis Tracy C. <1960, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.4/84/082 |
| Collana | Gender and performance |
| Soggetto topico |
Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
1-280-44271-9
1-134-93447-5 1-134-93446-7 9786610442713 0-203-20001-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE THEATRE; Family dynasties, recruitment, and career opportunities for women; The Profession's divisions of labour; Wages; SEX, GENDER, AND SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY; The Female Surplus Question and the sex ratio; The female life; Professional welfare; THE SOCIAL DYNAMIC AND 'RESPECTABILITY'; Actresses' defiance of socioeconomic prescriptions; Actresses and prostitutes; Sexual harassment; The quintessential sexual terror; ACTRESSES AND THE MISE EN SCNE
Costuming the erotic topographyGesture: 'Every little movement has a meaning of its own'; Figural composition in the mise en scne; Erotic verification; THE GEOGRAPHY OF SEX IN SOCIETY AND THEATRE; The erotic neighbourhood outside the playhouse; Erotic zones within the playhouse; Forestalling the erotic; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783638503321 |
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Davis Tracy C. <1960, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Actresses as working women : their social identity in Victorian culture / / Tracy C. Davis
| Actresses as working women : their social identity in Victorian culture / / Tracy C. Davis |
| Autore | Davis Tracy C. <1960-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.4/84/082 |
| Collana | Gender and performance |
| Soggetto topico |
Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain |
| ISBN |
1-280-44271-9
1-134-93447-5 1-134-93446-7 9786610442713 0-203-20001-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; THE SOCIOECONOMIC ORGANIZATION OF THE THEATRE; Family dynasties, recruitment, and career opportunities for women; The Profession's divisions of labour; Wages; SEX, GENDER, AND SOCIAL DEMOGRAPHY; The Female Surplus Question and the sex ratio; The female life; Professional welfare; THE SOCIAL DYNAMIC AND 'RESPECTABILITY'; Actresses' defiance of socioeconomic prescriptions; Actresses and prostitutes; Sexual harassment; The quintessential sexual terror; ACTRESSES AND THE MISE EN SCNE
Costuming the erotic topographyGesture: 'Every little movement has a meaning of its own'; Figural composition in the mise en scne; Erotic verification; THE GEOGRAPHY OF SEX IN SOCIETY AND THEATRE; The erotic neighbourhood outside the playhouse; Erotic zones within the playhouse; Forestalling the erotic; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817022403321 |
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Davis Tracy C. <1960->
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| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fashioning Celebrity : Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making / / Laura Engel
| Fashioning Celebrity : Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making / / Laura Engel |
| Autore | Engel Laura |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 184 p. :) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina | 792.0/28092241 |
| Soggetto topico |
Theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Celebrities - Great Britain Actresses - Great Britain |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8142-7075-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Sarah Siddons's diva celebrity -- Mary Robinson's gothic celebrity -- Mary Wells's notorious celebrity -- Epilogue. Fanny Kemble's inherited celebrity. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910552772103321 |
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Engel Laura
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| Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Great Britons of stage and screen : in conversation / / Barbara Roisman Cooper ; foreword by Robert Osborne ; afterword by Kevin Brownlow
| Great Britons of stage and screen : in conversation / / Barbara Roisman Cooper ; foreword by Robert Osborne ; afterword by Kevin Brownlow |
| Autore | Roisman Cooper Barbara <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (425 p.) |
| Disciplina | 792.02/8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Actors - Great Britain
Actresses - Great Britain Motion picture actors and actresses - Great Britain |
| ISBN | 1-4422-4621-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Dame Eileen Atkins, CBE; Chapter 2. Isla Blair; Chapter 3. Simon Callow, CBE; Chapter 4. Dame Joan Collins, OBE; Chapter 5. Peggy Cummins; Chapter 6. Sinéad Cusack; Chapter 7. Samantha Eggar; Chapter 8. Stephen Fry; Chapter 9. Julian Glover, CBE; Chapter 10. Stephen Greif; Chapter 11. Jeremy Irons; Chapter 12. Sir Derek Jacobi, CBE; Chapter 13. Felicity Kendal, CBE; Chapter 14. Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE; Chapter 15. Dame Angela Lansbury, CBE; Chapter 16. Sir John Mills, CBE; Chapter 17. Alfred Molina
Chapter 18. Lynn Redgrave, OBEChapter 19. Jean Simmons, OBE; Chapter 20. David Suchet, CBE; Chapter 21. Richard Todd, OBE, MC; Chapter 22. Michael York, OBE; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797541703321 |
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Roisman Cooper Barbara <1941->
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Great Britons of stage and screen : in conversation / / Barbara Roisman Cooper ; foreword by Robert Osborne ; afterword by Kevin Brownlow
| Great Britons of stage and screen : in conversation / / Barbara Roisman Cooper ; foreword by Robert Osborne ; afterword by Kevin Brownlow |
| Autore | Roisman Cooper Barbara <1941-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (425 p.) |
| Disciplina | 792.02/8 |
| Soggetto topico |
Actors - Great Britain
Actresses - Great Britain Motion picture actors and actresses - Great Britain |
| ISBN | 1-4422-4621-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Dame Eileen Atkins, CBE; Chapter 2. Isla Blair; Chapter 3. Simon Callow, CBE; Chapter 4. Dame Joan Collins, OBE; Chapter 5. Peggy Cummins; Chapter 6. Sinéad Cusack; Chapter 7. Samantha Eggar; Chapter 8. Stephen Fry; Chapter 9. Julian Glover, CBE; Chapter 10. Stephen Greif; Chapter 11. Jeremy Irons; Chapter 12. Sir Derek Jacobi, CBE; Chapter 13. Felicity Kendal, CBE; Chapter 14. Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE; Chapter 15. Dame Angela Lansbury, CBE; Chapter 16. Sir John Mills, CBE; Chapter 17. Alfred Molina
Chapter 18. Lynn Redgrave, OBEChapter 19. Jean Simmons, OBE; Chapter 20. David Suchet, CBE; Chapter 21. Richard Todd, OBE, MC; Chapter 22. Michael York, OBE; Afterword; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813728903321 |
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Roisman Cooper Barbara <1941->
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| Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rival queens [[electronic resource] ] : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / / Felicity Nussbaum
| Rival queens [[electronic resource] ] : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / / Felicity Nussbaum |
| Autore | Nussbaum Felicity |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina | 792.02/8082094109033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century Actresses - Great Britain |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-89801-2
0-8122-0689-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real, beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463382203321 |
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Nussbaum Felicity
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rival queens [[electronic resource] ] : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / / Felicity Nussbaum
| Rival queens [[electronic resource] ] : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / / Felicity Nussbaum |
| Autore | Nussbaum Felicity |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina | 792.02/8082094109033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century Actresses - Great Britain |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural Studies
Gender Studies Literature Women's Studies |
| ISBN |
1-283-89801-2
0-8122-0689-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real, beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788595603321 |
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Nussbaum Felicity
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / / Felicity Nussbaum
| Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / / Felicity Nussbaum |
| Autore | Nussbaum Felicity |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina | 792.02/8082094109033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 18th century Actresses - Great Britain |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural Studies
Gender Studies Literature Women's Studies |
| ISBN |
1-283-89801-2
0-8122-0689-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real, beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808668303321 |
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Nussbaum Felicity
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| Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 / / edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr
| Stage mothers : women, work, and the theater, 1660-1830 / / edited by Laura Engel and Elaine M. McGirr |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
| Disciplina | 792.02/80820941 |
| Collana | Transits : Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 |
| Soggetto topico |
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 18th century
Women in the theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actresses - Great Britain Working mothers - Great Britain English drama - 18th century - History and criticism English drama - 19th century - History and criticism English drama - Women authors - History and criticism Mothers in literature Motherhood in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-61148-605-X
1-61148-604-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I. ACTRESSES, MOTHERHOOD, AND THE PROFESSION OF THE STAGE; Chapter 1. "THE DIVIDED HEART OF THE ACTRESS: "Late Eighteenth-Century Actresses and the"Cult of Maternity"; Chapter 2. THE INCONVENIENCE OF THE FEMALE CONDITION: Anne Oldfield's Pregnancies; Chapter 3. "INIMITABLE SENSIBILITY": Susannah Cibber's Performance of Maternity; Chapter 4. WORKING MOTHERS ON THE ROMANTIC STAGE: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson; Part II. REPRESENTATIONS OF MOTHERS ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE
Chapter 5. REBELS FOR LOVE: Maternity, Absolutism, and the Earl of Orrery's MustaphaChapter 6. ROWE'S THE AMBITIOUS STEPMOTHER: Motherhood and the Politics of the Blended Family; Chapter 7. STAGED VIRTUE: Anastasia Robinson as Ideal Mother in Two Operas of the 1720s; Chapter 8. MATERNAL DUTIES AND FILIAL MALAPROPISMS: Frances Sheridan and the Problems of Theatrical Inheritance; Chapter 9. MY SON, MY LOVER: Gothic Contagion and Maternal Sexuality in The Mysterious Mother; Part III. ACTRESSES AND THEIR CHILDREN Chapter 10. ELIZABETH AND KEPPEL CRAVEN AND THE DOMESTIC DRAMA OF MOTHER-SON RELATIONSChapter 11. MOMMY DIVA: The Divided Loyalties of Sarah Siddons; Chapter 12. THE GERBINI LETTERS: OR, A TALE OF TWO MOTHERS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463306203321 |
| Lewisburg, [Pennsylvania] : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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