Fiona Gregory

Actresses and Mental Illness (eBook, PDF)

Histrionic Heroines

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between the work of the actress and her personal history of mental illness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351035491
• Artikelnr.: 54272922

Autorenporträt

Fiona Gregory is Lecturer in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University in Melbourne. Her research on the history of the actress has appeared in leading journals including New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre Survey, and Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1 Performing the Rest Cure: Mrs Patrick Campbell
Chapter 2 The Minor Actress Undone: Peg Entwistle and Dorothy Hale Chapter
3 The Actress and Addiction: Diana Barrymore Chapter 4 Mythmaking Madness:
Vivien Leigh Chapter 5 Mad Actress as Icon: Frances Farmer