This book presents cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. It explore women's networks of professional practice in the performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women's sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men.
This book presents cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. It explore women's networks of professional practice in the performance industries between 1900 and 1950, with a focus on women's sense and experience of professional agency in an industry largely controlled by men.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair of Drama at the University of Manchester Kate Dorney is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Manchester
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Introduction - Maggie B. Gale and Kate Dorney Part I: Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm 1 'Believe me or not': actresses, female performers, autobiography and the scripting of professional practice - Maggie B. Gale 2 Female networks: collecting contacts with Gabrielle Enthoven - Kate Dorney 3 Past the memoir: Winifred Dolan beyond the West End - Lucie Sutherland 4 Off-stage labour: actresses, charity work and the early twentieth-century theatre profession - Catherine Hindson 5 'Very much alive and kicking': the Actresses' Franchise League from 1914-28 - Naomi Paxton 6 Defending the body, defending the self: women performers and the law in the 'long' Edwardian period - Viv Gardner Part II: Women and popular performance 7 Emotional and natural: the Australian and New Zealand repertoires and fortunes of north American performers Margaret Anglin, Katherine Grey and Muriel Starr - Veronica Kelly 8 Lily Brayton: a theatre maker in every sense - Brian Singleton 9 Aerial star: Lillian Leitzel's celebrity, agency and her performed femininity - Kate Holmes 10 Ellen Terry: the art of performance and her work in film - Katharine Cockin 11 Mabel Constanduros: different voices, voicing difference - Gilli Bush-Bailey 12 The odd woman: Margaret Rutherford - John Stokes Index
Introduction - Maggie B. Gale and Kate Dorney Part I: Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm 1 'Believe me or not': actresses, female performers, autobiography and the scripting of professional practice - Maggie B. Gale 2 Female networks: collecting contacts with Gabrielle Enthoven - Kate Dorney 3 Past the memoir: Winifred Dolan beyond the West End - Lucie Sutherland 4 Off-stage labour: actresses, charity work and the early twentieth-century theatre profession - Catherine Hindson 5 'Very much alive and kicking': the Actresses' Franchise League from 1914-28 - Naomi Paxton 6 Defending the body, defending the self: women performers and the law in the 'long' Edwardian period - Viv Gardner Part II: Women and popular performance 7 Emotional and natural: the Australian and New Zealand repertoires and fortunes of north American performers Margaret Anglin, Katherine Grey and Muriel Starr - Veronica Kelly 8 Lily Brayton: a theatre maker in every sense - Brian Singleton 9 Aerial star: Lillian Leitzel's celebrity, agency and her performed femininity - Kate Holmes 10 Ellen Terry: the art of performance and her work in film - Katharine Cockin 11 Mabel Constanduros: different voices, voicing difference - Gilli Bush-Bailey 12 The odd woman: Margaret Rutherford - John Stokes Index
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