When Romeo was a woman : Charlotte Cushman and her circle of female spectators /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Merrill, Lisa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, [1999]
Series:Triangulations.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Crossings: passion embodied and remembered
  • The hero in the family and on the stage
  • "Is such love wrong?"
  • Embodying strong(-minded) women: the shapes Charlotte Cushman wore onstage
  • Wearing the breeches: Charlotte Cushman's male roles
  • Scribbling circles and strange sympathies: Charlotte Cushman's London circle of lovers and friends
  • Building a community: Charlotte Cushman's Roman salon
  • The Sapphic family
  • The backlash and beyond.