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A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage (Theater in the Americas)
Barbara Wallace Grossman
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Description for A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage (Theater in the Americas)
Paperback. Explores the life and career of actress, author, and feminist Clara Morris. This book reveals how Morris, even after experiencing blindness and the loss of her home, livelihood, and family, did not succumb to despair and found comfort in the small pleasures of her circumscribed life. Series: Theater in the Americas. Num Pages: 368 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ANB; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
This book explores the life and career of actress, author, and feminist Clara Morris.Once called 'America's greatest actress,' renowned for the passion and power of her performances, Clara Morris (1847-1925) has been largely forgotten. ""A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage"" is the first full-length study of the actress' importance as a feminist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Detailing her daunting health problems and the changing tastes in entertainment that led to her retirement from the stage, Barbara Wallace Grossman explores Morris' dramatic reinvention as an author. During a second robust career, she published ... Read more
This book explores the life and career of actress, author, and feminist Clara Morris.Once called 'America's greatest actress,' renowned for the passion and power of her performances, Clara Morris (1847-1925) has been largely forgotten. ""A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage"" is the first full-length study of the actress' importance as a feminist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Detailing her daunting health problems and the changing tastes in entertainment that led to her retirement from the stage, Barbara Wallace Grossman explores Morris' dramatic reinvention as an author. During a second robust career, she published ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809328826
SKU
V9780809328826
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About Barbara Wallace Grossman
Barbara Wallace Grossman is an associate professor and chair of the drama and dance department at Tufts University. She is the author of Funny Woman: The Life and Times of Fanny Brice.
Reviews for A Spectacle of Suffering: Clara Morris on the American Stage (Theater in the Americas)
"A Spectacle of Suffering is a unique contribution to theatre scholarship. Barbara Grossman has done an excellent job of piecing together Clara Morris's history. Her text is effortless to read - as smooth as a novel - and the documentation is impeccable." - Rosemarie K. Bank, author of Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860"