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Author : Georges Ohnet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Rival Actresses written by Georges Ohnet and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : 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 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 : Brander Matthews
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Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/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 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brander Matthews
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Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States: Garrick and his contemporaries written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Author : Brander Matthews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
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 : Isabelle Baudino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351887351
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Invisible Woman written by Isabelle Baudino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most social historians writing about working women in pre-nineteenth century Britain have tended to concentrate on fairly large groups, such as factory workers or domestic servants, often in an attempt to reach some conclusions regarding their standards of living and social position. Another approach has lead feminist historians to search for underlying causes of women's exploitation through the locus of class and gender. Without ignoring these crucial issues, this volume written by cultural historians takes a slightly different approach, focusing on the status of small, sometimes tiny, groups of women holding marginal positions in the labour market, and often employed on an irregular basis. Women such as housekeepers, nurses, camp followers, governesses, actresses and musicians, to take some of the cases examined in this volume, generally did not have stable, permanent employment. Even female tradesmen often only worked for short periods of their lives. The temporary, unreliable character of such work can be partly related to the changing needs of women at different periods of their lives, but it also has much to do the status of women's work in eighteenth century British society. Providing case-studies of women's work in three different environments - middle and upper class households, male dominated communities and societies and the world of the arts - this collection asks fresh questions about women's aspirations and identity at various levels of society. In comparing and contrasting these varying spheres of female employment, this book throws in sharp relief the contrasting attitude to women's work inside and outside the home, and how the latter was often regarded as having a potentially destabilising and transgressive effect on British society.
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Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cast written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Eyre Pascoe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Our actors and actresses. The dramatic list 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:
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Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Life of Mrs Abington (formerly Miss Barton) Celebrated Comic Actress written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Editor of Life of Quin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Life of Mrs. Abington (formerly Miss Barton) Celebrated Comic Actress, with Full Account of Her Various Performances in the Theatres of London and Dublin written by Editor of Life of Quin and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Tapert
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978808054
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Best Actress written by Stephen Tapert and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing a dazzling collection of 200 photographs, many of which have never before been seen, this lavishly illustrated book offers a captivating historical, social, and political examination of the first 75 women--from Janet Gaynor to Emma Stone--to have won the coveted and legendary Academy Award for Best Actress.t Actress.
Author : Augustin Daly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Woffington written by Augustin Daly and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Eyre Pascoe
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ISBN 13 :
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:
Author : Horace Wyndham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Audrey the Actress written by Horace Wyndham and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
