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245			_aThe Cambridge Companion to the Actress / _cedited by Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes
260			_aNewyork: _bCambridge University Press , _c©2007.
300			_axii, 348p.:ill.; 23 cm
440			_aCambridge Companions to Literature
505			_aIntroduction Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes Part I. Turning Points: 1. Revolution, legislation and autonomy Gilli Bush-Bailey 2. Spectacle, intellect and authority: the actress in the eighteenth century Elizabeth Eger 3. Cultural formations: the nineteenth-century touring actress and her international audiences Gail Marshall 4. The actress as photographic icon: from early photography to early film David Mayer 5. The actress and the profession: training in England in the twentieth century Lucie Sutherland 6. 'Out of the ordinary': exercising restraint in the post-war years John Stokes 7. Icons and labourers: some political actresses Tony Howard Part II. Professional Opportunities: 8. The actress as manager Jo Robinson 9. By herself: the actress and autobiography, 1755–1939 Viv Gardner 10. The screen actress from silence to sound Christine Gledhill 11. 'Side doors and service elevators': racial constraints for actresses of colour Lynette Goddard Part III. Genre, Form and Tradition: 12. Mirroring men: the actress in drag Jacky Bratton 13. 'Studies in hysteria': actress and courtesan, Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs Patrick Campbell Elaine Aston 14. Beyond the muse: the Spanish actress as collaborator Maria M. Delgado 15. Going solo: an historical perspective on the actress and the monologue Maggie B. Gale 16. Changing Shakespeare Penny Gay.
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aPerforming Arts _xActress
700			_aGale, Maggie B. [Ed.] _aStokes, John [Ed.]
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