This innovative book examines the careers of three performers whose professional lives together spanned the period from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, from the heyday of neoclassicism to the coming of realism. While the individual essays concentrate on the specific work of each actress, a wide-ranging introduction relates their collective achievement to social and cultural change. Vivid reconstructions of their interpretations and unique accounts of theatrical conditions place the art of three very different but pivotal figures in context.
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"...this study offers sensitive explications of the acting of each, accomplished with authority and clarity." D.B. Wilmeth, Choice
"Each essay provides a brief scholarly and informative treatment of its subject, with somewhat different emphases." University of Toronto Quarterly
"...the detailed and scholarly individual essays make this book a valuable resource." Anne Russell, Comparative Drama
"Each essay provides a brief scholarly and informative treatment of its subject, with somewhat different emphases." University of Toronto Quarterly
"...the detailed and scholarly individual essays make this book a valuable resource." Anne Russell, Comparative Drama
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This innovative book examines the careers of three performers whose professional lives together spanned the period from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, from the heyday of neo-classicism to the coming of realism. While the individual essays concentrate on the specific work of each actress, a wide-ranging introduction relates their collective achievement to social and cultural change. Vivid reconstructions of their interpretations and unique accounts of theatrical conditions place the art of three very different but pivotal figures in context.
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The funeral of Sarah Siddons took place on the morning of 15 June 1831. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tragic acting, tragic actress, tragic muse, tragic actors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Drury Lane, Lady Macbeth, Sarah Siddons, Jane Shore, Covent Garden, Adelaide Ristori, Reale Sarda Company, United States, Lady Randolph, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Francesca da Rimini, Queen Katharine, Madame Ristori, Mary Stuart, Maria Stuarda, New York, Marie Antoinette, Mademoiselle Rachel, Venice Preserved, Anna Seward, Papal States, William Siddons, Edmund Kean, Henry Knepler, Mary Hamilton New!
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The funeral of Sarah Siddons took place on the morning of 15 June 1831. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tragic acting, tragic actress, tragic muse, tragic actors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Drury Lane, Lady Macbeth, Sarah Siddons, Jane Shore, Covent Garden, Adelaide Ristori, Reale Sarda Company, United States, Lady Randolph, Adrienne Lecouvreur, Francesca da Rimini, Queen Katharine, Madame Ristori, Mary Stuart, Maria Stuarda, New York, Marie Antoinette, Mademoiselle Rachel, Venice Preserved, Anna Seward, Papal States, William Siddons, Edmund Kean, Henry Knepler, Mary Hamilton New!
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- Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comédie-Française by Rachel M. Brownstein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Mary Stuart (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Schiller on page 120, and page 123
- Incomparable Siddons by Florence M. Parsons in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Venice Preserved (Regents Restoration Drama) by Thomas Otway on page 14, and page 26
- Poems On Various Subjects by Anne Macvicar Grant in Back Matter
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- Anaï¿1/2s Nin, Fictionality and Femininity (Oxford English Monographs) by Helen Tookey on page 99, and Back Matter
- Women, Modernism, and Performance by Penny Farfan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) by Lynn M. Voskuil in Back Matter
- Victorian Shakespeare, Volume 1: Theatre, Drama and Performance by Gail Marshall in Front Matter
- Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts by David Román in Back Matter
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