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, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Davis Tracy C. <1960, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1991 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
Davis Tracy C. <1960-> | ||
London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1991 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nineteenth-century theatre and the Imperial encounter / / Marty Gould |
Autore | Gould Marty <1972-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 792/.0941/09034 |
Collana | Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies |
Soggetto topico |
Theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century
English drama - 19th century - History and criticism Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century Imperialism - Great Britain - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-136-74054-6
1-283-15127-8 9786613151278 0-203-81906-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: around the world in eighty plays -- Imperial theatrics: spectacle and empire in the nineteenth century -- Pt. 1: Re-casting the castaway: the nineteenth-century theatrical robinsonade -- The novel is not enough: text and performance in the cataract of the ganges -- Adapting a nation to empire: the evolution of the Crusoe pantomime -- Crusoe's clothes: performing authority in the admirable Crichton -- Pt. 2: Theatrical nabobery: imperial wealth, masculinity, and metropolitan identities -- The stage nabob's eighteenth-century origins -- 'The yellow beams of his oriental countenance': the nabob as racial and cultural hybrid -- Australian gold rush plays and the Anglo-Indian nabob's antipodal antithesis -- Pt. 3: Staging the mutiny: ethnicity, masculinity, and imperial crisis -- India in the limelight: empire and the theatre of war -- The empire needs men: mutiny plays and the mobilization of masculinity -- Forging a greater Britain: the highland soldier and the renegotiation of ethnic alterities -- Conclusion: the Imperial encounter from stage to screen. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461348203321 |
Gould Marty <1972-, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nineteenth-century theatre and the Imperial encounter / / Marty Gould |
Autore | Gould Marty <1972-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 792/.0941/09034 |
Collana | Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies |
Soggetto topico |
Theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century
English drama - 19th century - History and criticism Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century Imperialism - Great Britain - History |
ISBN |
1-136-74053-8
1-136-74054-6 1-283-15127-8 9786613151278 0-203-81906-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: around the world in eighty plays -- Imperial theatrics: spectacle and empire in the nineteenth century -- Pt. 1: Re-casting the castaway: the nineteenth-century theatrical robinsonade -- The novel is not enough: text and performance in the cataract of the ganges -- Adapting a nation to empire: the evolution of the Crusoe pantomime -- Crusoe's clothes: performing authority in the admirable Crichton -- Pt. 2: Theatrical nabobery: imperial wealth, masculinity, and metropolitan identities -- The stage nabob's eighteenth-century origins -- 'The yellow beams of his oriental countenance': the nabob as racial and cultural hybrid -- Australian gold rush plays and the Anglo-Indian nabob's antipodal antithesis -- Pt. 3: Staging the mutiny: ethnicity, masculinity, and imperial crisis -- India in the limelight: empire and the theatre of war -- The empire needs men: mutiny plays and the mobilization of masculinity -- Forging a greater Britain: the highland soldier and the renegotiation of ethnic alterities -- Conclusion: the Imperial encounter from stage to screen. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789548303321 |
Gould Marty <1972-, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Nineteenth-century theatre and the Imperial encounter / / Marty Gould |
Autore | Gould Marty <1972-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 p.) |
Disciplina | 792/.0941/09034 |
Collana | Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies |
Soggetto topico |
Theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century
English drama - 19th century - History and criticism Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century Imperialism - Great Britain - History |
ISBN |
1-136-74053-8
1-136-74054-6 1-283-15127-8 9786613151278 0-203-81906-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: around the world in eighty plays -- Imperial theatrics: spectacle and empire in the nineteenth century -- Pt. 1: Re-casting the castaway: the nineteenth-century theatrical robinsonade -- The novel is not enough: text and performance in the cataract of the ganges -- Adapting a nation to empire: the evolution of the Crusoe pantomime -- Crusoe's clothes: performing authority in the admirable Crichton -- Pt. 2: Theatrical nabobery: imperial wealth, masculinity, and metropolitan identities -- The stage nabob's eighteenth-century origins -- 'The yellow beams of his oriental countenance': the nabob as racial and cultural hybrid -- Australian gold rush plays and the Anglo-Indian nabob's antipodal antithesis -- Pt. 3: Staging the mutiny: ethnicity, masculinity, and imperial crisis -- India in the limelight: empire and the theatre of war -- The empire needs men: mutiny plays and the mobilization of masculinity -- Forging a greater Britain: the highland soldier and the renegotiation of ethnic alterities -- Conclusion: the Imperial encounter from stage to screen. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823178803321 |
Gould Marty <1972-, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Racism on the Victorian stage : representation of slavery and the black character / / Hazel Waters [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Waters Hazel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 792.0890094109034 |
Soggetto topico |
Prejudices in literature
Racism in literature Slavery in literature English drama - 19th century - History and criticism Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-107-16864-3
1-280-81563-9 0-511-27474-2 0-511-48608-1 0-511-27544-7 0-511-27319-3 0-511-32097-3 0-511-27398-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 1 From vengeance to sentiment ; 7 -- ; 2 The beginning of the end for the black avenger ; 37 -- ; 3 Ira Aldridge and the battlefield of race ; 58 -- ; 4 The comic and the grotesque: the American influence ; 89 -- ; 5 The consolidation of the black grotesque ; 114 -- ; 6 Slavery freed from the constraint of blackness ; 130 -- ; 7 Uncle Tom -- moral high ground or low comedy? ; 155. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457833503321 |
Waters Hazel | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Racism on the Victorian stage : representation of slavery and the black character / / Hazel Waters [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Waters Hazel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 792.0890094109034 |
Soggetto topico |
Prejudices in literature
Racism in literature Slavery in literature English drama - 19th century - History and criticism Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-107-16864-3
1-280-81563-9 0-511-27474-2 0-511-48608-1 0-511-27544-7 0-511-27319-3 0-511-32097-3 0-511-27398-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 1 From vengeance to sentiment ; 7 -- ; 2 The beginning of the end for the black avenger ; 37 -- ; 3 Ira Aldridge and the battlefield of race ; 58 -- ; 4 The comic and the grotesque: the American influence ; 89 -- ; 5 The consolidation of the black grotesque ; 114 -- ; 6 Slavery freed from the constraint of blackness ; 130 -- ; 7 Uncle Tom -- moral high ground or low comedy? ; 155. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784345603321 |
Waters Hazel | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Racism on the Victorian stage : representation of slavery and the black character / / Hazel Waters |
Autore | Waters Hazel |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 792.0890094109034 |
Soggetto topico |
Racism in popular culture - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Racism and the arts - Great Britain - History - 19th century Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century Race in literature |
ISBN |
1-107-16864-3
1-280-81563-9 0-511-27474-2 0-511-48608-1 0-511-27544-7 0-511-27319-3 0-511-32097-3 0-511-27398-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 1 From vengeance to sentiment ; 7 -- ; 2 The beginning of the end for the black avenger ; 37 -- ; 3 Ira Aldridge and the battlefield of race ; 58 -- ; 4 The comic and the grotesque: the American influence ; 89 -- ; 5 The consolidation of the black grotesque ; 114 -- ; 6 Slavery freed from the constraint of blackness ; 130 -- ; 7 Uncle Tom -- moral high ground or low comedy? ; 155. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810213403321 |
Waters Hazel | ||
Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The rise of the Victorian actor / / Michael Baker |
Autore | Baker Michael <1948-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina | 792/.028/0941 |
Collana | Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Theatre |
Soggetto topico |
Theater - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Theater and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century Actors - Great Britain |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-315-68108-0
1-317-39910-2 1-317-39909-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; Introduction; 1. The Stage and the Professions; 2. Actors and Ethics; 3. The Actor's Community; 4. The Decline of the Actor's Community; 5. The Position of the Actress; 6. Working Conditions; 7. Establishing a Profession; 8. The Actor Arrives; Notes; Appendix I: Tables Showing the Principal Biographical Details of Three Generations of Actors and Actresses who Appeared on the Stage in the Period 1830-90
Appendix II: Family Trees of Some Typical Victorian Theatrical DynastiesAppendix III: Increase between Censuses in the Recorded Numbers of Actors and Actresses in England and Wales, 1841-91; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460775803321 |
Baker Michael <1948-, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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