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Acting Women Lesley Ferris

Acting Women By Lesley Ferris

Acting Women by Lesley Ferris


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A study based on the question as to whether there is a boundary between playacting and the self. The author asks if society and culture conditions women to internalize a means for survival which centres on auditioning, dressing up and wearing costume.

Acting Women Summary

Acting Women: Images of Women in Theatre by Lesley Ferris

A study based on the question as to whether there is a boundary between playacting and the self. The author asks if society and culture conditions women to internalize a means for survival which centers on auditioning, dressing up and wearing costume. It focuses on the revelation that beyond the literary analysis of texts it is performance which offers a key to understanding the social construction of gender as well as the ambigious position of women in the theatre. The author gives a historical analysis of the changing position of women in the theatre from English Renaissance and classical Greek comedy when men played women's roles to women playing men's roles both on the stage in theatrical costume and off the stage in social disguise. In this discourse she discloses an imbalance where women seek freedom through male dress and men achieve aesthetic creativity through acting women.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Theatrical history and the sign of the female: the power of women on stage - the gender enigma in Renaissance England; cross-dressing, the Greeks and the Wily Phallus; historical precedents - women unmasked; Goethe, Goldoni and woman-hating; masques and masking. Part 2 Archetypal images of women in theatre: the penintent whore; the speechless heroine; the wilful woman; the golden girl; women as men.

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GOR005926412
9780333432914
0333432916
Acting Women: Images of Women in Theatre by Lesley Ferris
Used - Good
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
19900129
208
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