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Women, Theatre and Performance

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Author : Maggie Barbara Gale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719057137
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Women, Theatre and Performance written by Maggie Barbara Gale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection addresses key questions in women's theatre history and retrieves a number of previously "hidden" histories of women performers. The essays range across the past 300 years--topics covered include Susanna Centlivre and the notion of intertheatricality; gender and theatrical space; the repositioning of women performers such as Wagner's Muse, Willhelmina Schröder-Devrient, the Comédie Français' "Mademoiselle Mars," Mme. Arnould-Plessey, and the actresses of the Russian serf theatre.

Auto/Biography and Identity

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Author : Maggie B B. Gale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719063329
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Auto/Biography and Identity written by Maggie B B. Gale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that women use autobiography and performance for expression and as a means of controlling their public and private selves, the contributors of these 11 essays examine the lives and work of a variety of artists ranging from actors as working women in the eighteenth century to monologists and performance artists today. Subjects include several performers, including Alma Ellerslie, Kitty Marion, Ina Rozant, Susan Glaspell, Adrienne Kennedy, Emma Robinson, Lena Ashwell, Tilly Wedekind, Clare Dowie, Janet Cardiff, Tracey Emin, and, in an interview, Bobby Baker, as well as essays on Latina theater and lesbians as performers constructing themselves and their community. Annotation : 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Performing Women

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Author : Gay Gibson Cima
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801483370
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Performing Women written by Gay Gibson Cima and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that critics have misunderstood the relationship between male playwrights and women's roles because they have neglected the interpretive skills of the actresses playing those roles. Analyzes hypothetical as well as historical performances to demonstrate how women have invented acting styles to portray women created by playwrights from Ibsen to Beckett. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Women as Hamlet

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Author : Tony Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521864666
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Women as Hamlet written by Tony Howard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of actresses playing the role of Hamlet on stage and screen.

Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing

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Author : W. Arons
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230600735
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth-Century German Women's Writing written by W. Arons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Wendy Arons examines how women writers used theater and performance to investigate the problem of female subjectivity and to intervene in the dominant discourse about ideal femininity. Arons shows how contemporary demands for sincerity and authenticity placed a peculiar burden on women in the public sphere, especially on actresses, who - like professional writers - overstepped the boundaries of what was considered proper behavior for women. Paradoxically, in their representations of ideal women engaged in performance, these writers expose ideal femininity as an impossible act, even as they attempt to perform it in their writing and in their lives.

Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance

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Author : Amy Lehman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786454717
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance written by Amy Lehman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritualists in the nineteenth century spoke of the "Borderland," a shadowy threshold where the living communed with the dead, and where those in the material realm could receive comfort or advice from another world. The skilled performances of mostly female actors and performers made the "Borderland" a theatre, of sorts, in which dramas of revelation and recognition were produced in the forms of seances, trances, and spiritualist lectures. This book examines some of the most fascinating American and British actresses of the Victorian era, whose performances fairly mesmerized their audiences of amused skeptics and ardent believers. It also focuses on the transformative possibilities of the spiritualist theatre, revealing how the performances allowed Victorian women to speak, act, and create outside the boundaries of their restricted social and psychological roles.

Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama

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Author : Keir Elam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351871188
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama written by Keir Elam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As theatre and drama of the Romantic Period undergo a critical reassessment among scholars internationally, the contributions of women as playwrights, actresses, and managers are also being revalued. This volume, which brings together leading British, North American, and Italian critics, is a crucial step towards reclaiming the importance of women's dramatic and theatrical activities during the period. Writing for the theatre implied assuming a public role, a hazardous undertaking for women who, especially after the French Revolution, were assigned to the private, primarily domestic, sphere. As the contributors examine the covert strategies women used to become full participants in the public theatre, they shed light on the issue of women's agency, expressed both through the writing of highly politicized or ethicized drama, as in the case of Elizabeth Inchbald or Joanna Baillie, and through women's professional practice as theatre managers and stage producers, as in the case of Elizabeth Vestris and Jane Scott. Among the topics considered are women's history plays, domesticity, ethics and sexuality in women's closet drama, the politics of drama and performance, and the role of women as managers and producers. Specialists in performance studies, Romantic Period drama, and women's writing will find the essays both challenging and inspiring.

Women in American Musical Theatre

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Author : Bertram E. Coleman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women in American Musical Theatre written by Bertram E. Coleman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-06-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine the history of women in musical theatre, providing biographical descriptions; interpretations of their productions; and several accounts of how being a woman affected their careers.

The Theatre Arts Audition Book for Women

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Author : Annika Bluhm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135871299
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre Arts Audition Book for Women written by Annika Bluhm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. The Theatre Arts Audition Books offer one hundred speeches from plays of the past twenty-five years, fifty in a volume for men, fifty in a volume for women. Each excerpt is preceded by a note situating the play and the selection. Speeches come from a wide range of plays, including David Mamet's Oleanna, Caryl Churchill's Serious Money, Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Jim Cartwright's Road, and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, as well as plays by Anthony Minghella, Mark Ravenhill, Sue Townsend, Alan Ayckbourn, and others. Annika Bluhm has assembled two sparkling collections of monologues that will challenge and inspire the actor

Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s

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Author : Katherine E. Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134802374
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s written by Katherine E. Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama. It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation. Playwrights include: * Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden) * Amelai Pincherle Rosselli (Italy) * Elsa Berstein (Germany) * Elizabeth Robins (Britain) * Marie Leneru (France) * Alfonsina Storni (Argentina) * Hella Wuolijoki (Finland) * Hasegawa Shigure (Japan) * Rachilde (France) * Zinaida Gippius (Russia) * Djuna Barnes (USA) * Marita Bonner (USA) This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.

Staging Creolization

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Author : Emily Sahakian
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813940095
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Staging Creolization written by Emily Sahakian and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Staging Creolization, Emily Sahakian examines seven plays by Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, and Simone Schwarz-Bart that premiered in the French Caribbean or in France in the 1980s and 1990s and soon thereafter traveled to the United States. Sahakian argues that these late-twentieth-century plays by French Caribbean women writers dramatize and enact creolization—the process of cultural transformation through mixing and conflict that occurred in the context of the legacies of slavery and colonialism. Sahakian here theorizes creolization as a performance-based process, dramatized by French Caribbean women’s plays and enacted through their international production and reception histories. The author contends that the syncretism of the plays is not a static, fixed creole aesthetics but rather a dynamic process of creolization in motion, informed by history and based in the African-derived principle that performance is a space of creativity and transformation that connects past, present, and future.

Performing Feminisms

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Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801839696
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Performing Feminisms written by Sue-Ellen Case and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.

Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance

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Author : David Jortner
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739123003
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance written by David Jortner and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance is a collection of sixteen essays on Japanese theatre, including historical overviews of twentieth century theatre, analyses of specific productions and individuals, and consideration of the intercultural nature of modern Japanese theatre. Also included is a new translation of a 'Superkyogen' play.

The Feminist Spectator as Critic

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Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472081608
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The Feminist Spectator as Critic written by Jill Dolan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance

The Book of Will

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Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822237725
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Will written by Lauren Gunderson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

Acting Women

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Author : Lesley Ferris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814725986
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Acting Women written by Lesley Ferris and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wom Pol Per S/Afr Thtre

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Author : Lizbeth Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0203990625
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Wom Pol Per S/Afr Thtre written by Lizbeth Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-08-19 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, 'Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today' is an important contribution to Performance.