Auto/Biography and Identity: Women, Theatre and Performance - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0719063337 ISBN 13: 9780719063336

Casa editrice: Manchester Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

This groundbreaking book shows how female performers - one of the first groups of professional women - used and still use autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves, the 'face and the mask'. It looks at how a range of women in the theatre - actors, managers, writers and live artists - have done this on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth-century to the present day, testing the boundaries between gender, theatre and autobiographical form.

This paperback edition facilitates connections - between texts and performances, past and present practitioners, professional and private selves, individuals and communities, all of which have in some way renegotiated identity through autobiography and the creative act.
'Auto/biography and identity' is a landmark in theatre history and performance analysis, in gender and cultural theory, and autobiographical studies.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair in Drama at The University of Manchester

Viv Gardner is Professor of Theatre Studies in the Department of Drama at the University of Manchester


Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair in Drama at The University of Manchester. Viv Gardner is Professor of Theatre Studies in the Department of Drama at the University of Manchester

Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair in Drama at The University of Manchester

Viv Gardner is Professor of Theatre Studies in the Department of Drama at the University of Manchester

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This groundbreaking book shows how female performers - one of the first groups of professional women - used and still use autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves, the 'face and the mask'. It looks at how a range of women in the theatre - actors, managers, writers and live artists - have done this on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth-century to the present day, testing the boundaries between gender, theatre and autobiographical form. This paperback edition facilitates connections - between texts and performances, past and present practitioners, professional and private selves, individuals and communities, all of which have in some way renegotiated identity through autobiography and the creative act.'Auto/biography and identity' is a landmark in theatre history and performance analysis, in gender and cultural theory, and autobiographical studies.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Manchester Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0719063337
• ISBN 13: 9780719063336
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 260
• Redattore: Gale Maggie B., Gardner Viv
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Germania