Stage women, 1900-50 : female theatre workers and professional practice / edited by Maggie B. Gale and Kate Dorney.

• Introduction : Maggie B. Gale and Kate Dorney -- Part I : Female theatre workers in the social and theatrical realm. 1. 'Believe me or not' : actresses, female performers, autobiography and the scripting of professional practice / Maggie B. Gale -- 2. Female networks : collecting contacts with Gabrielle Enthoven / Kate Dorney -- 3. Past the memoir : Winifred Dolan beyond the West End / Lucie Sutherland -- 4. Off-stage labour : actresses, charity work and the early twentieth-century theatre profession / Catherine Hindson -- 5. 'Very much alive and kicking' : the Actresses' Franchise League from 1914-28 / Naomi Paxton -- 6. Defending the body, defending the self : women performers and the law in the 'long' Edwardian period / Viv Gardner -- Part II : Women and popular performance. 7. Emotional and natural : the Australian and New Zealand repertoires and fortunes of north American performers Margaret Anglin, Katherine Grey and Muriel Starr / Veronica Kelly -- 8. Lily Brayton : a theatre maker in every sense / Brian Singleton --9. Aerial star : Lillian Leitzel's celebrity, agency and her performed femininity / Kate Holmes -- 10. Ellen Terry : the art of performance and her work in film / Katharine Cockin -- 11. Mabel Constanduros : different voices, voicing difference /Gilli Bush-Bailey -- 12. The odd woman : Margaret Rutherford / John Stokes.

Ämnesord

Teater och samhälle  (sao)

Kvinnliga skådespelare  (sao)

Kvinnor i teatern  (sao)

Teater  -- historia (sao)

Kvinnor och teater 

Theater and society  (LCSH)

Women in the theater  (LCSH)

Actresses  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

1900-talet  (sao)

Klassifikation

792.082 (DDC)

Ika (kssb/8 (machine generated))