Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521667418
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521667418
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521667418
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad
Author: Cecilia Morgan
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228013275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class culture. Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad writes the lives of women who, despite their renown during their lifetimes, have been all too easily forgotten. Cecilia Morgan examines these “sweet girls’” childhoods, their experiences of work, touring, and company management, the plays in which they appeared, and the celebrity they enjoyed. In so doing she shows how women helped convey messages about race, empire, and white identity in popular culture. Investigating a period from the 1870s to the 1940s, Morgan demonstrates how actresses evolved within a period of change in theatre, how they coped with new challenges, and how they brought their craft to new media. Paying particular attention to the careers of Margaret Bannerman, Tony Award-winner Beatrice Lillie, Margaret Anglin, Julia Arthur, and Frances Doble, among many others, this book explores how being an actress abroad became work as well as profession for Canadian women. Extensively researched and generously illustrated, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad argues for the importance of theatre, both to Canadian women’s history and to our understanding of Canada in a transnational world.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228013275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and helped shape transnational middle-class culture. Taking the approach of feminist collective biography, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad writes the lives of women who, despite their renown during their lifetimes, have been all too easily forgotten. Cecilia Morgan examines these “sweet girls’” childhoods, their experiences of work, touring, and company management, the plays in which they appeared, and the celebrity they enjoyed. In so doing she shows how women helped convey messages about race, empire, and white identity in popular culture. Investigating a period from the 1870s to the 1940s, Morgan demonstrates how actresses evolved within a period of change in theatre, how they coped with new challenges, and how they brought their craft to new media. Paying particular attention to the careers of Margaret Bannerman, Tony Award-winner Beatrice Lillie, Margaret Anglin, Julia Arthur, and Frances Doble, among many others, this book explores how being an actress abroad became work as well as profession for Canadian women. Extensively researched and generously illustrated, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad argues for the importance of theatre, both to Canadian women’s history and to our understanding of Canada in a transnational world.
Electra USA
Author: E. Teresa Choate
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 083864211X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Theatrical performance is the most ephemeral of arts. Once a production closes, the living work of art disappears. Fortunately, some productions leave behind enough evidence to reconstruct in words and pictures what a performance was like and to conjecture what the audience saw and heard. Between 1889 and 1995 in America, productions of Sophocles' Electra became the project of some of the most significant directors, actresses, and producers of their day. In reconstructing eleven major productions, this book seeks to accomplish two goals: first, to preserve, albeit in imperfect written form, the productions themselves; and, second, by tracing the history of Electra's production, to highlight some of the most pivotal figures in the development of American theater, including several key women often neglected by theater historians. Along the way, for those who celebrate Greek tragedy in production, this book will allow the reader to sit vicariously in the audience and enjoy eleven Electra productions on the American stage. E. Teresa Choate is an Associate Professor and Assistant Chair at the Department of Theatre in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Kean University.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 083864211X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Theatrical performance is the most ephemeral of arts. Once a production closes, the living work of art disappears. Fortunately, some productions leave behind enough evidence to reconstruct in words and pictures what a performance was like and to conjecture what the audience saw and heard. Between 1889 and 1995 in America, productions of Sophocles' Electra became the project of some of the most significant directors, actresses, and producers of their day. In reconstructing eleven major productions, this book seeks to accomplish two goals: first, to preserve, albeit in imperfect written form, the productions themselves; and, second, by tracing the history of Electra's production, to highlight some of the most pivotal figures in the development of American theater, including several key women often neglected by theater historians. Along the way, for those who celebrate Greek tragedy in production, this book will allow the reader to sit vicariously in the audience and enjoy eleven Electra productions on the American stage. E. Teresa Choate is an Associate Professor and Assistant Chair at the Department of Theatre in the School of Visual and Performing Arts at Kean University.
University of California Chronicle
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Yale Courant
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Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Theatre Magazine
Author: W. J. Thorold
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Commonweal
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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The Green Book Magazine
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
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The Midland Monthly Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Transnational Lives
Author: D. Deacon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230277470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The transnationalism of ordinary lives threatens the stability of national identity and unsettles the framework of national histories and biography. This book takes mobility, not nation, as its frame, and captures a rich array of lives, from the elite to the subaltern, that have crossed national, racial and cartographic boundaries.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230277470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The transnationalism of ordinary lives threatens the stability of national identity and unsettles the framework of national histories and biography. This book takes mobility, not nation, as its frame, and captures a rich array of lives, from the elite to the subaltern, that have crossed national, racial and cartographic boundaries.