Actresses, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Playing Women

By Helen Brooks and Helen E.M. Brooks

Book Overview

Examining theatre economics, rhetorical acting, cross-dressing, the staging of 'self', and the alignment of motherhood and work, this book reveals how actresses drew on changing models of gender to achieve phenomenal levels of success over the eighteenth-century. By doing so it sheds new light on the cultural significance of female performance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349334480
• ISBN13: 9781349334483
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"