Author: Moira Goff
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351887807
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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In the first full-length study of the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow, Moira Goff focuses on her unusual career at Drury Lane between 1706 and 1733. Goff charts Santlow's repertoire and makes extensive use of archival resources to investigate both her dancing and acting skills. Santlow made a unique contribution to the development of dance on the London stage, through her dancing roles in dance dramas by John Weaver and pantomimes by John Thurmond and Roger, as well as the virtuoso dances created for her by Mr. Isaac and Anthony L'Abbé. Goff examines Santlow's fascinating personal life, including her relationships with the politician James Craggs the Younger and the Drury Lane actor-manager Barton Booth. Santlow was unusual in making the transition from successful dancer-actress to independent and respectable widow. Goff also traces her life after retirement as her daughter's family rose from the gentry towards the aristocracy. This book will be of interest to dance and theatre historians, to women's studies scholars, and to all who are engaged with ongoing debates on the lives and careers of women on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century stage.
Author: Thomas Alan King
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299226206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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"Taking on nothing less than the formation of modern genders and sexualities, Thomas A. King develops a history of the political and performative struggles that produced both normative and queer masculinities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The result is a major contribution to gender studies, gay studies, and theater and performance history. The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750 traces the transition from a society based on alliance, which had subordinated all men, women, and boys to higher ranked males, to one founded in sexuality, through which men have embodied their claims to personal and political privacy. King proposes that the male body is a performative production marking men's resistance to their subjection within patriarchy and sovereignty. Emphasizing that categories of gender must come under historical analysis, The Gendering of Men explores men's particpation in an ongoing struggle for access to a universal manliness transcending other biological and social differentials."--Pub. desc. v.1.
Author: Colley Cibber
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Category : Cibber, Colley
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Author: Colley Cibber
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Category : Actors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Author: Mary Luckhurst
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230523846
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Theatre has always been a site for selling outrage and sensation, a place where public reputations are made and destroyed in spectacular ways. This is the first book to investigate the construction and production of celebrity in the British theatre. These exciting essays explore aspects of fame, notoriety and transgression in a wide range of performers and playwrights including David Garrick, Oscar Wilde, Ellen Terry, Laurence Olivier and Sarah Kane. This pioneering volume examines the ingenious ways in which these stars have negotiated their own fame. The essays also analyze the complex relationships between discourses of celebrity and questions of gender, spectatorship and the operation of cultural markets.
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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