Curtain Calls: British And American Woman And The Theater, 1660-1820

摘要: \u201cI here and there o'heard a Coxcomb cry, Ah, rot-'tis Woman's Comedy.\u201d Thus Aphra Behn ushers in new era for women the British Theatre (Sir Patient Fancy, 1678). In hundred years that were to follow - exactly those Curtain Calls examines truly took theater world by storm. For each woman who chose career of eighteenth century, is unique tale struggle, insult, success, good or bad fortune, disaster, seduction, fame. Whether acting, writing, reviewing, stage managing, played major, if frequently unacknowledged, role history from late seventeenth through early nineteenth centuries. From Alpha Behn's earliest plays glorious celebrity Sara Siddons, molded taste age carved out one few available opportunities independence renown. Not all tried succeeded, course, even best faced opposition as they challenged male stronghold playwriting managing. maps territory these pioneering staked it their own; chronicles lives, triumphs, losses. We begin with Behn, whose first play was staged 1670, conclude decades century Inchbald Siddons. The fifty encompassed lives contain careers dozens lesser-known women, network, Dr. Johnson would have it, encompassing both talent tribulation. Contributors include: Edward Langhans, Linda R. Payne, Pat Rogers, Maureen e. Mulvihill, Deborah Betty Rizzo, Ellen Donkin, Frances M. Kavenik, Jessica Munns, nancy Cotton, Edna L. Steevs, Doreen Saar, Jean B. Kern, Katherine Constance Clark, William J. Burling, Judith Phillips Stanton, Douglas Butler, Rose Zimbardo, editors.