Actresses, gender, and the eighteenth-century stage: playing women
Auteur :
Brooks, H.
Éditeur :
Pan Macmillan
ISBN :
9780230298330
Date de publication :
13 nov. 2014
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.