When Romeo was a woman : Charlotte Cushman and her circle of female spectators /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor, Mich. :
University of Michigan Press,
[1999]
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| Series: | Triangulations.
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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.