This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine,
from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the
actress throughout history and across continents. Each essay
focuses on a particular stage in her development, for example
professionalism in the seventeenth century; the emergence of the
actresscritic during the Romantic period and, later on, of the
actress as best selling autobiographer; the coming of the drama
schools which led to today''s emphasis on the actress as a
highly-trained working woman. Chapters consider the image of the
actress as a courtesan, as a ''muse'', as a representative of the
''ordinary'' housewife, and as a political activist. The collection
also contains essays on forms, genres and traditions - on cross
dressing, solo performance, racial constraints, and recent
Shakespeare - as well as on the actress in early photography and on
film. Its unique range will fascinate, surprise and instruct
theatre-goers and students alike.
目錄：
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction page
MAGGIE B. GALE AND JOHN STOKES
Part I: Turning points
1 Revolution, legislation and autonomy
GILLI BUSH-BAILEY
2 Spectacle, intellect and authority: the
actress in the eighteenth century
ELIZABETH EGER
3 Cultural formations: the nineteenth-century
touring actress and her international audiences
GAIL MARSHALL
4 The actress as photographic icon: from early
photography to early film
DAVID MAYER
5 The actress and the profession: training in
England in the twentieth century
LUCIE SUTHERLAND
6 Out of the ordinary: exercising restraint in
the post-war years
JOHN STOKES
7 Icons and labourers: some political
actresses
TONY HOWARD
Part II: Professional opportunities
8 The actress as manager
JO ROBINSON
9 By herself: the actress and autobiography,
1755–1939
VIV GARDNER
10 The screen actress from silence to
sound
CHRISTINE GLEDHILL
11 Side doors and service elevators: racial
constraints for actresses of colour
LYNETTE GODDARD
Part III: Genre, form and tradition
12 Mirroring men: the actress in drag
JACKY BRATTON
13 ‘Studies in hysteria’: actress and courtesan,
Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs Patrick Campbell
ELAINE ASTON
14 Beyond the muse: the Spanish actress as
collaborator
MARIA M. DELGADO
15 Going solo: an historical perspective on the
actress and the monologue
MAGGIE B. GALE
16 Changing Shakespeare: new possibilities for
the modern actress
PENNY GAY
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