Author: Adelaide Calvert
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Biddles Calvert ("Mrs. Charles Calvert")
Publisher:
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Category : Actresses
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Nan Mullenneaux
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496210913
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Breaking every prescription of ideal femininity, American actresses of the mid-nineteenth century appeared in public alongside men, financially supported nuclear and extended families, challenged domestic common law, and traveled the globe in the transnational theater market. While these women expanded professional, artistic, and geographic frontiers, they expanded domestic frontiers as well: publicly, actresses used the traditional rhetoric of domesticity to mask their very nontraditional personal lives, instigating historically significant domestic innovations to circumvent the gender constraints of the mid-nineteenth century, reinventing themselves and their families in the process. Nan Mullenneaux focuses on the personal and professional lives of more than sixty women who, despite their diverse backgrounds, each made complex conscious and unconscious compromises to create profit and power. Mullenneaux identifies patterns of macro and micro negotiation and reinvention and maps them onto the waves of legal, economic, and social change to identify broader historical links that complicate notions of the influence of gendered power and the definition of feminism; the role of the body/embodiment in race, class, and gender issues; the relevance of family history to the achievements of influential Americans; and national versus inter- and transnational cultural trends. While Staging Family expands our understanding of how nineteenth-century actresses both negotiated power and then hid that power, it also informs contemporary questions of how women juggle professional and personal responsibilities—achieving success in spite of gender constraints and societal expectations.

Author: Charles Edgar Lewis Wingate
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Author: Ralph Pite
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040128610
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Considers the reputations and biographical portrayal of three innovative and controversial writers: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins and William Thackeray. These anthologies of contemporary biographical material shed light on the processes at work in the establishment of a public image and a critical reputation.

Author: Tetsuo Kishi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040129005
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Extracts from diaries, memoirs, private letters, obituaries and other rare ephemera are drawn together to build a contemporary account of the acting achievements and personal lives of three inspiring figures from the late nineteenth-century theatre; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.

Author: Cecil Ferard Armstrong
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Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Ida Alexa Ross Wylie
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Category : Black Forest (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Author: Thomas Cobb
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Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: FLAME
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Languages : en
Pages : 392

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