Actresses As Working Women

Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134934467
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Actresses as Working Women written by Tracy C. Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134934475
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Actresses as Working Women written by Tracy C. Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Faye E. Dudden
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300070583
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the American Theatre written by Faye E. Dudden and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of biographical sketches of female performers and managers, Dudden provides a discussion of the conflicted messages conveyed by the early theatre about what it meant to be a woman. It both showed women as sex objects and provided opportunities for careers.

Author : Eric Lane
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307487342
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Women written by Eric Lane and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gather any group of actresses, from students to stars, and someone will inevitably ask, "Where are all the great roles for women?" The roles are right here, in this magnificently diverse collection of plays–full-lenghts, one-acts, and monologues--with mainly female casts, which represent the answer to any actress's prayer. The editors of the groundbreaking anthology Plays for Actresses have once again gathered an abundance of strong female roles in a selection of works by award-winning authors and cutting-edge newer voices, from Wendy Wasserstein and Christopher Durang to Claudia Shear, Eve Ensler, and Margaret Edson. The characters who populate these seven full-length plays, four ten-minute plays, and eleven monologues include a vivid cross-section of female experience: girl gang members, Southern debutantes, pilots, teachers, traffic reporters, and rebel teenagers. From a hilarious take on Medea to a taboo-breaking excerpt from The Vagina Monologues to a moving scene from the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, the plays in Leading Women are complex, funny, tragic, and always original--and a boon for talented actresses everywhere. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Albert Auster
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Actresses and Suffragists written by Albert Auster and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Actresses and Suffragists the author demonstrates how actresses both anticipated many of these changes and paved the way for other women to gain more control over their lives.

Author : Kirsten Pullen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521541022
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Actresses and Whores written by Kirsten Pullen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Rosamond Gilder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enter the Actress written by Rosamond Gilder and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janice Norwood
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526133342
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian touring actresses written by Janice Norwood and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-09 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian touring actresses brings new attention to women’s experience of working in nineteenth-century theatre by focusing on a diverse group of largely forgotten ‘mid-tier’ performers, rather than the usual celebrity figures. It examines how actresses responded to changing political, economic and social circumstances and how the women were themselves agents of change. Their histories reveal dynamic patterns of activity within the theatrical industry and expose its relationship to wider Victorian culture. With an innovative organisation mimicking the stages of an actress’s life and career, the volume draws on new archival research and plentiful illustrations to examine the challenges and opportunities facing the women as they toured both within the UK and further afield in North America and Australasia. It will appeal to students and researchers in theatre and performance history, Victorian studies, gender studies and transatlantic studies.

Author : Felicity Nussbaum
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206894
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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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 : Catherine Schuler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113615597X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in Russian Theatre written by Catherine Schuler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Russian Theatre is a fascinating feminist counterpoint to the established area of Russian theatre populated by male artists such as Stanislavsky, Chekov and Meyerhold. With unprecedented access to newly-opened files in Russia, Catherine Schuler brings to light the actresses who had an impact upon Russian modernist theatre. Schuler brings to light the extradordinary lives and work of eight Russian actresses who flourished on the stage between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.