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_bC178 2007
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245 0 4 _aThe Cambridge companion to the actress /
_cedited by Maggie B. Gale and John Stokes.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2007.
300 _axii, 348 p. :
_bill. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-329) and index.
505 _aRevolution, legislation and autonomy / Gilli Bush-Bailey -- Spectacle, intellect and authority : the actress in the eighteenth century / Elizabeth Eger -- Cultural formations : the nineteenth-century touring actress and her international audiences / Gail Marshall -- The actress as photographic icon : from early photography to early film / David Mayer -- The actress and the profession : training in England in the twentieth century / Lucie Sutherland -- Out of the ordinary : exercising restraint in the post-war years / John Stokes -- Icons and labourers : some political actresses / Tony Howard -- The actress as manager / Jo Robinson -- By herself : the actress and autobiography, 1755-1939 / Viv Gardner -- The screen actress from silence to sound / Christine Gledhill -- Side doors and service elevators : racial constraints for actresses of colour / Lynette Goddard -- Mirroring men : the actress in drag / Jacky Bratton -- 'Studies in hysteria' : actress and courtesan, Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs Patrick Campbell / Elaine Aston -- Beyond the muse : the Spanish actress as collaborator / Maria M. Delgado -- Going solo : an historical perspective on the actress and the monologue / Maggie B. Gale -- Changing Shakespeare : new possibilties for the modern actress / Penny Gay.
520 _aThis volume is a collection of original essays on the cultural role of performing women on stage and on screen, throughout history and across continents. Topics covered include cross dressing, solo performance, racial constraints, recent Shakespeare, and the actress in early photography and on film.
650 0 _aWomen in the theater.
650 0 _aActresses.
650 4 _aTeatro estadounidense
_xHistoria y crítica.
650 4 _aMujeres en el teatro
_zEstados Unidos.
650 4 _aMujeres como autoras
_zEstados Unidos.
650 4 _aActrices.
650 4 _aHistoria del teatro.
650 4 _aMujeres
_xCultura
_vTeatro.
650 4 _aIdentidad femenina
_vTeatro.
700 1 _aGale, Maggie B.
_q(Maggie Barbara),
_d1963-
700 1 _aStokes, John,
_d1943-
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