The Cambridge Companion to the Actress / (Record no. 7561)

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ISBN 9780521608541
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Classification number 792.028082
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Title The Cambridge Companion to the Actress /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes
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Place of publication Newyork:
Name of publisher Cambridge University Press ,
Year of publication ©2007.
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Number of Pages xii, 348p.:ill.; 23 cm
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Title Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Formatted contents note Introduction Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes<br/>Part I. Turning Points:<br/>1. Revolution, legislation and autonomy Gilli Bush-Bailey<br/>2. Spectacle, intellect and authority: the actress in the eighteenth century Elizabeth Eger<br/>3. Cultural formations: the nineteenth-century touring actress and her international audiences Gail Marshall<br/>4. The actress as photographic icon: from early photography to early film David Mayer<br/>5. The actress and the profession: training in England in the twentieth century Lucie Sutherland<br/>6. 'Out of the ordinary': exercising restraint in the post-war years John Stokes<br/>7. Icons and labourers: some political actresses Tony Howard<br/>Part II. Professional Opportunities:<br/>8. The actress as manager Jo Robinson<br/>9. By herself: the actress and autobiography, 1755–1939 Viv Gardner<br/>10. The screen actress from silence to sound Christine Gledhill<br/>11. 'Side doors and service elevators': racial constraints for actresses of colour Lynette Goddard<br/>Part III. Genre, Form and Tradition:<br/>12. Mirroring men: the actress in drag Jacky Bratton<br/>13. 'Studies in hysteria': actress and courtesan, Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs Patrick Campbell Elaine Aston<br/>14. Beyond the muse: the Spanish actress as collaborator Maria M. Delgado<br/>15. Going solo: an historical perspective on the actress and the monologue Maggie B. Gale<br/>16. Changing Shakespeare Penny Gay.
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Summary, etc This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine, from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the actress 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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Topical Term Performing Arts
General subdivision Actress
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Personal name Gale, Maggie B. [Ed.]
-- Stokes, John [Ed.]
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