Victorian Touring Actresses
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Victorian Touring Actresses
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Author : Janice Norwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-05-19
Victorian Touring Actresses written by Janice Norwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-19 with categories.
Victorian touring actresses provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century theatre and the careers of previously neglected British women who had once starred at home and abroad. Chapters explore debuts, establishing a name, working life in the UK, touring North America, long-distance colonial touring, management, offstage life and ageing.
Actresses As Working Women
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Author : Tracy C. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-03-11
Actresses As Working Women written by Tracy C. Davis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Using historical evidence as well as personal accounts, Tracy C. Davis examines the reality of conditions for `ordinary' actresses, their working environments, employment patterns and the reasons why acting continued to be such a popular, though insecure, profession. Firmly grounded in Marxist and feminist theory she looks at representations of women on stage, and the meanings associated with and generated by them.
The Victorian Actress In The Novel And On The Stage
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Author : Renata Kobetts Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
The Victorian Actress In The Novel And On The Stage written by Renata Kobetts Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with HISTORY categories.
This book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a significant figure for the relationship between women and the public sphere, to define their own place within and among genres and in relation to audiences.
Women And Victorian Theatre
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Author : Kerry Powell
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-12-11
Women And Victorian Theatre written by Kerry Powell and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This important book chronicles the growing role of women playwrights, managers and actresses in the Victorian theatre.
International Actresses On The Victorian Stage
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Author : Giovanna Buonanno
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
International Actresses On The Victorian Stage written by Giovanna Buonanno and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Performing Arts categories.
Touring Performance And Global Exchange 1850 1960
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Author : Gilli Bush-Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-30
Touring Performance And Global Exchange 1850 1960 written by Gilli Bush-Bailey and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-30 with Performing Arts categories.
This collection uncovers connections and coincidences that challenge the old stories of pioneering performers who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It investigates songlines, drama, opera, music theatre, dance, and circus—removing traditional boundaries that separate studies of performance, and celebrating difference and transformation in style, intention, and delivery. Well known, or obscure, travelling performers faced dangers at sea and hazardous journeys across land. Their tracks, made in pursuit of fortune and fame, intersected with those made by earlier storytellers in search for food. Touring Performance and Global Exchange takes a fresh look at such tracks—the material remains—demonstrating that moving performance does far more than transfer repertoires and people; it transforms them. Touring performance has too often beenconceived in diasporic terms, as a fixed product radiating out from a cultural centre. This collection maps different patterns—ones that comprise reversed flows, cross currents, and continually proliferating centres of meaning in complex networks of global exchange. This collection will be of great interest to scholars and students in theatre, music, drama studies, and cultural history.
Cora Urquhart Potter
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Author : Craig Clinton
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010-07-15
Cora Urquhart Potter written by Craig Clinton and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"This critical biography explores the life of the famed actress from abandonment of her position as a New York society belle to her career. Of particular note is the manner in which Potter's defiance of convention both mirrored and propelled the changes transforming theatre and society. In advancing the New Woman, both on and off stage"--Provided by publisher.
Henry Irving And The Victorian Theatre
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Author : Madeleine Bingham
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-16
Henry Irving And The Victorian Theatre written by Madeleine Bingham and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Originally published in 1978. Henry Irving achieved an astounding success in Britain and America as an actor; yet he lacked good looks, had spindly legs, and did not have a good voice. He said so himself. Today Irving is regarded as the archetype of the old-time actor, but in his own time he was regarded as a great theatrical innovator. Even Bernard Shaw, who attacked him pitilessly, even unto death, called him ‘modern’ when he first saw him act. Irving, the man, with his tenacious, obsessive talent, his human limitations and weaknesses, and his ephemeral glory is brought most sympathetically to life in this biography. It is written from contemporary sources, and from criticisms, lampoons, caricatures and gossip columns. If Irving reflected certain aspects of his age, this book underlines the Victorian ethic to which he appealed and the backcloths against which it was set – the extraordinary lavishness of the Lyceum productions and the incredible extravagance of social entertaining. Not the least absorbing aspect of this biography is the fascinating account of the long partnership between Irving and Ellen Terry, still in many respects an enigmatic one, but here portrayed with lively insight into character combined with understanding and deep knowledge of the social and theatrical context of the Victorian age.
Actresses On The Victorian Stage
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Author : Gail Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-05-07
Actresses On The Victorian Stage written by Gail Marshall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Drawing on evidence of theatrical fictions, visual representations and popular culture's assimilation of the sculptural image, as well as theatrical productions, she examines some of the manifestations of the sculptural metaphor on the legitimate English stage, and its implications for the actress in the later nineteenth century. Within the legitimate theatre, the 'Galatea-aesthetic' positioned actresses as predominantly visual and sexual commodities whose opportunities for interpretative engagement with their plays were minimal. This dominant aesthetic was effectively challenged only at the end of the century, with the advent of the 'New' drama, and the emergence of a body of autobiographical writings by actresses.
Blockbusters Of Victorian Theater 1850 1910
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Author : Paul Fryer
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-11-15
Blockbusters Of Victorian Theater 1850 1910 written by Paul Fryer and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-15 with Performing Arts categories.
This edited collection of essays details a wide-ranging selection of some of the most sensationally successful theatre productions of the long Victorian era, the real "blockbusters" of the age. Ranging from the world of operetta and music hall to spectacular drama and sensational melodrama, the productions included provide the reader with definitive proof that the phenomenon of the "smash hit" show is not restricted to modern Broadway. This is a world that encompassed the ground-breaking stage technology of Ben Hur, the wide political impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the sheer creative originality of L'Enfant Prodigue. Supporting the "star" system, productions featured some of the greatest names of the period - Sir Henry Irving, Sir Johnston Forbes Robertson, James O'Neill and Dion Boucicault. This was the very dawning of a new media age, which saw many of the productions transfer to the new world of silent cinema for the very first time