Format:
1 Online-Ressource.
Edition:
1st ed. 2019
ISBN:
978-3-030-23828-5
Content:
1. General Introduction; Jan Sewell and Clare Smout -- 2. Female Performers in the Greco-Roman World: An Introduction; Anne Duncan -- 3. The Roman Mimae: Female Performers in Ancient Rome; Anne Duncan -- 4. Ludism, Gender-Play and Roman Theatricality; Clare Foster -- 5. Women and Medieval Drama: Selected Sisters and Worshipful Wives; Sue Niebrzydowski -- 6. The First Italian Actresses, Isabella Andreini and the Commedia dell’Arte; Margaret Rose -- 7. Elizabeth I and the Dancing Stuart Queens: Female Agency and Subjectivity in Early Modern English Court Drama; Catherine Clifford -- 8. Margaret Cavendish’s Female Fairground Performers; M. A. Katritzky -- 9. Women Performers on English Stages 1660-1740; Jane Milling -- 10. Eighteenth-Century English Actresses: From Rustic Simplicity to Urban Sophistication; Laura J. Rosenthal -- 11. Late Eighteenth-Century English Actresses and Material Culture; Laura Engel --
Content:
12. Performing the Nation State: Female Representation in Nineteenth-Century American Theatre and the American Cultural Imagination; Pam Cobrin -- 13. Death and the Working Woman: Actresses, Illness, and Labour from Rachel to Bernhardt; Roberta Barker -- 14. Ada Rehan: The Case of the Missing International Star; Lezlie C. Cross -- 15. Japanese Women on Stage: From Tradition to Modernity; Yamanashi Makiko -- 16. Leading Ladies on the Modern Greek Stage: Personal and Political Rivalries from Paraskevopoulou and Veroni to Kotopouli, Kyveli and Papadaki; Xenia Georgopoulou -- 17. British Actresses, 1900-1950: Professional Transformations; Maggie B. Gale -- 18. Serafima Birman, Sofia Giatsintova, Alla Tarasova and Olga Pyzhova: ‘Second Wave’ Russian and Soviet Actresses, Stanislavsky's System and the Moscow Art Theatre; Maria Ignatieva and Rose Whyman --
Content:
19. Actress-Entrepreneurs of the Harlem Renaissance / New Negro Era: Anita Bush, Abbie Mitchell, Rose McClendon, Mercedes Gilbert, Venzella Jones; Cheryl Black -- 20. ‘Bad Girls’ of 1960s-1990s American Performance: Adrian Piper, Karen Finley and Carolee Schneemann; Dorothy Chansky -- 21. Birth, Copulation and Death: Feminist Theatre and Performance Practice across Four Decades; Anna Furse -- 22. Feminist Theatre: Putting Women Centre Stage; Sue Parrish -- 23. Theatre of Black Women: A Personal Account; Bernardine Evaristo -- 24. Women and Theatre, Birmingham: The Early Years (1984-1994); Polly Wright, with Jo Broadwood and Janice Connolly -- 25. Jenny Sealey of Graeae in Conversation with Clare Smout, February 2018: Gender and Disability; Jenny Sealey, with Clare Smout -- 26. Women on the Classical Kerala Stage: The Kutiyattam and Kathakali Traditions; Diane Daugherty -- 27. Negotiating Representations of Coloured Women in Post-Apartheid South African Performance; Amy Jephta --
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-030-23828-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Theater
;
Bühne
;
Frau
;
Schauspielerin
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-23828-5
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
