Actresses, gender, and the eighteenth-century stage : playing women /
Over the course of the eighteenth century notions of what it meant to be a woman changed radically and through examining the work of actresses including Anne Oldfield, Peg Woffington, Dora Jordan and Sarah Siddons, Helen Brooks reveals how female performers both responded, and contributed to, these...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Playing for Money: 'This is certainly a large sum but I can assure you I have worked very hard for it'
- 2. Playing the Passions: 'All their Force and Judgment in perfection'
- 3. Playing Men: 'Half the men in the house take me for one of their own sex'
- 4. Playing Her Self: 'It was not as an actress but as herself, that she charmed every one'
- 5. Playing Mothers: 'Stand forth ye elves, and plead your mother's cause'
- Bibliography
- Index.