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Manchester University Press Victorian Touring Actresses: Crossing Boundaries and Negotiating the Cultural Landscape (Women, Theatre and Performance)

Name: Victorian Touring Actresses: Crossing Boundaries and Negotiating the Cultural Landscape (Women, Theatre and Performance)
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Victorian touring actresses: Crossing boundaries and negotiating the cultural landscape provides a new perspective on the on- and offstage lives of women working in nineteenth-century theatre, and affirms the central role of touring, both within the United Kingdom and in North America and Australasia. Drawing on extensive archival research, it features a cross-section of neglected performers whose dramatic specialisms range from tragedy to burlesque. Although they were employed as stars in their own time, their contribution to the industry has largely been forgotten. The book’s innovative organisation follows a natural lifecycle, enabling a detailed examination of the practical challenges and opportunities typically encountered by the actress at each stage of her working life. Chapters explore debuts, establishing a name, working life in the UK, touring North America, long-distance colonial touring, management, offstage life and ageing. Individual experiences are scrutinised to highlight the career implications of strategies adopted to cope with the demands of the profession, the physical potential of the actress’s body, and the operation of gendered power on and offstage. Analysis is situated in a wide contextual framework and reveals how reception and success depended on the performer’s response to the changing political, economic, social and cultural landscape as well as to developments in professional practice and organisation. The book concludes with discussion of the legacies of the performers, linking their experiences to the present-day situation. Victorian Touring Actresses will be of interest to students and researchers in theatre and performance history, Victorian studies, gender studies and transatlantic studies.

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Brand: Manchester University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1526133326
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts > Theatre > Direction & Production
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 07 May 2020
Listed Since: 15 August 2019

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