Meredith Conti

Playing Sick

Performances of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine

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Produktbeschreibung

Playing Sick reconstructs how actors embodied three of the Victorian era's most provocative illnesses: tuberculosis, drug addiction, and mental illness. In placing performances of illness within wider medicocultural contexts, Meredith Conti analyzes how such depictions confirmed or resisted salient constructions of diseases and the diseased.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781138703117
• ISBN-10: 1138703117
• Artikelnr.: 53690548

Autorenporträt

Meredith Conti is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. A historian of nineteenth-century theatre and performance, Conti's work has appeared in Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Victorian Medicine and Popular Culture (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Part One:
Performing Consumption. Chapter One - Rosy Cheeks and Red Handkerchiefs:
Performing Camille's Consumption Before, During, and After the Contagionist
Turn. Chapter Two - Foreign Invaders: The Transatlantic Consumptives of
Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. Part Two: Performing Drug Addiction.
Chapter Three - Early Dramaturgies of Drug Addiction in Stage Adaptations
of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Sherlock Holmes. Chapter Four - Master,
Martyr, Monster: The Addict Archetypes of Richard Mansfield and William
Hooker Gillette. Part Three: Performing Mental Illness. Chapter Five - The
Madwoman in the Theatre: Normalizing the Disordered Female Mind in Ellen
Terry's Lyceum Repertoire. Chapter Six - Abortive Masculinity, Social
Decay, and Neuroticism in Henry Irving's Mad Roles. Conclusion. Index