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Actresses, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage
H. Brooks
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Description for Actresses, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage
Paperback. Num Pages: 201 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
Examining theatre economics, rhetorical acting, cross-dressing, the staging of 'self', and the alignment of motherhood and work, this book reveals how actresses drew on changing models of gender to achieve phenomenal levels of success over the eighteenth-century. By doing so it sheds new light on the cultural significance of female performance.
Examining theatre economics, rhetorical acting, cross-dressing, the staging of 'self', and the alignment of motherhood and work, this book reveals how actresses drew on changing models of gender to achieve phenomenal levels of success over the eighteenth-century. By doing so it sheds new light on the cultural significance of female performance.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349334483
SKU
V9781349334483
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99-15
About H. Brooks
Helen E. M. Brooks is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Kent, UK. is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Kent, UK. She is Associate Editor of the Wiley Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660–1789 and has published articles on eighteenth-century women as actresses and theatre managers, on private theatricals, and on performance historiography.
Reviews for Actresses, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage
“This book provides a new focus through a study of how these actresses negotiated and displayed contemporary concepts of gender in order to create themselves as profitable and marketable commodities. … Brooks offers an impressive contribution to the study of eighteenth-century actresses, appealing to scholars of theatrical history, eighteenth-century drama and women’s history … .” (Anna Louise Senkiw, The BARS ... Read more