The Restoration Actress in Her Seventeenth-Century Social, Political, and Artistic Context
The Edwin Mellen Press (Verlag)
978-1-4955-0292-7 (ISBN)
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This book investigates the lives and careers of the Restoration era's three most famous actresses: Nell Gwyn, Elizabeth Barry, and Anne Bracegirdle. It elucidates how these powerful women's offstage reputations and their greatest performances were agents of political, social, and cultural behavior, producers of - as well as products of - social meanings. The actresses provide a lens for the evolution of the English Restoration theatre and the connections between actresses' lives, performances and shifts in social and cultural behavior.
Dr. Jennifer E. Popple is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Dramaturgy in the Department of Theatre and the Co-Chair of the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Dr. Popple holds a Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism and a Graduate Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Sample from Table of Contents: Foreword by Lisa Hall Hagen; Introduction/ Acknowledges; When the Actress Took the Stage: Positioning the Restoration Actress in Her Social and Political Context; Scope of Study/Theory and Method/ Chapter Divisions/ Study Objectives; Chapter One: Setting the Stage; Politics Before 1649; English Interregnum; Preparations Begin; A Monarch Restored; Theatre Returns; Restoration Theatres; The Introduction of the Actress; Restoration Theatres as Businesses; Playwrights and Platys; Performance Conventions; Restoration Audiences; Sexuality and Difference Onstage; Chapter Two: The Golden Years: Nell Gwyn and the Early Restoration, 1660-1665; The Restoration's Cinderella; Charles II and the Early Restoration Court; Nell Gwyn's Theatrical Introduction.
| Verlagsort | NY |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4955-0292-9 / 1495502929 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4955-0292-7 / 9781495502927 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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