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Author : Georges Ohnet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rival Actresses written by Georges Ohnet and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Felicity Nussbaum
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206894
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Rival Queens written by Felicity Nussbaum and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their audiences, celebrated actresses were among the first women to achieve social mobility, cultural authority, and financial independence. In fact, Nussbaum contends, the eighteenth century might well be called the "age of the actress" in the British theater, given women's influence on the dramatic repertory and, through it, on the definition of femininity. Treating individual star actresses who helped spark a cult of celebrity—especially Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, Catherine Clive, Margaret Woffington, Frances Abington, and George Anne Bellamy—Rival Queens reveals the way these women animated issues of national identity, property, patronage, and fashion in the context of their dramatic performances. Actresses intentionally heightened their commercial appeal by catapulting the rivalries among themselves to center stage. They also boldly challenged in importance the actor-managers who have long dominated eighteenth-century theater history and criticism. Felicity Nussbaum combines an emphasis on the actresses themselves with close analysis of their diverse roles in works by major playwrights, including George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe, Colley Cibber, Arthur Murphy, David Garrick, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Richard Sheridan. Hers is a comprehensive and original argument about the importance of actresses as the first modern subjects, actively shaping their public identities to make themselves into celebrated properties.
Author : Suzanne Aspden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107067766
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Rival Sirens written by Suzanne Aspden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale of the onstage fight between prima donnas Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni is notorious, appearing in music histories to this day, but it is a fiction. Starting from this misunderstanding, The Rival Sirens suggests that the rivalry fostered between the singers in 1720s London was in large part a social construction, one conditioned by local theatrical context and audience expectations, and heightened by manipulations of plot and music. This book offers readings of operas by Handel and Bononcini as performance events, inflected by the audience's perceptions of singer persona and contemporary theatrical and cultural contexts. Through examining the case of these two women, Suzanne Aspden demonstrates that the personae of star performers, as well as their voices, were of crucial importance in determining the shape of an opera during the early part of the eighteenth century.
Author : Edward Robins
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Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Twelve Great Actresses written by Edward Robins and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shaun Considine
Publisher : Graymalkin Media
ISBN 13 : 1631681079
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Bette & Joan written by Shaun Considine and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This joint biography of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford follows Hollywood's most epic rivalry throughout their careers. They only worked together once, in the classic spine-chiller "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane" and their violent hatred of each other as rival sisters was no act. In real life they fought over as many man as they did film roles. The story of these two dueling divas is hilarious, monstrous, and tragic, and Shaun Considine’s account of it is exhaustive, explosive, and unsparing. “Rip-roaring. A definite ten.” - New York Magazine.
Author : Thomas Wainwright Bussom
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life and Dramatic Works of Pradon written by Thomas Wainwright Bussom and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Wainwright Bussom
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Pradon written by Thomas Wainwright Bussom and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Romance literature pamphlets written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brander Matthews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tiffany Potter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351882589
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine (1735) written by Tiffany Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Cooper's The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender. Following the adventures of Lady Bellair, a "glowing, joyous young Widow," the storyline regenders standard expectations about desire, marriage, libertinism and sentiment. The play has not been reprinted since 1735; therefore this old-spelling edition gives scholars access to an important but neglected resource for studies of women writers and eighteenth-century theatre. In an original and extensive introduction, Tiffany Potter presents cultural and historical information that highlights the scholarly implications of this newly available play. She offers a brief biographical sketch of the playwright; a summary of sources for specific elements of the play; an overview of the theatrical climate of the time (with particular focus on the conditions leading to the Licensing Act of 1737); a discussion of the place of women in eighteenth-century society; a summary of symbiotic cultural discourses of libertinism and sensibility in the early eighteenth century; and a discussion of the general cultural significance of Cooper's demonstration of the malleability of prescriptive gender roles. Further value is added to this edition through its appendices, which reproduce documents relating to the playwright Elizabeth Cooper and to the Licensing Act of 1737 (including the text of the Act itself).
Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809305186
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Appletons' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brander Matthews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States: The Kembles and their contemporaries written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl Mantzius
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times: Classicism and romanticism written by Karl Mantzius and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl Mantzius
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times: Classicism and romanticism, translated by C. Archer. 1921 written by Karl Mantzius and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karl Mantzius
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Classicism and romanticism written by Karl Mantzius and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Eyre Pascoe
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Our Actors and Actresses written by Charles Eyre Pascoe and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
