Women, Theatre and Performance

Women, Theatre and Performance
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0719057132
ISBN-13 : 9780719057137
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Book Synopsis Women, Theatre and Performance by : Maggie Barbara Gale

Download or read book Women, Theatre and Performance written by Maggie Barbara Gale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection addresses key questions in women's theatre history and retrieves a number of previously "hidden" histories of women performers. The essays range across the past 300 years--topics covered include Susanna Centlivre and the notion of intertheatricality; gender and theatrical space; the repositioning of women performers such as Wagner's Muse, Willhelmina Schröder-Devrient, the Comédie Français' "Mademoiselle Mars," Mme. Arnould-Plessey, and the actresses of the Russian serf theatre.


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