Stage women, 1900-50 (eBook, ePUB)

Female theatre workers and professional practice
Redaktion: Gale, Maggie B.; Dorney, Kate

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book presents a collection of cutting-edge historical and cultural essays in the field of women, theatre and performance. The chapters explore women's networks of professional practice in the theatre and 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. The book is divided into two sections: 'Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm' looks at the relationship between women's work - on and off stage - and autobiography, activism, technique, touring, education and the law. 'Women and popular performance' focuses on the careers of individual artists, once household names, including Lily Brayton, Ellen Terry, radio star Mabel Constanduros and Oscar-winning film star Margaret Rutherford.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kind World Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526136879
• Artikelnr.: 57471292

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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