Auto/Biography and Identity Women, Theatre and Performance |
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| Editor:
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Gale, Maggie B. |
| Series title: | Women, Theatre and Performance Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7190-6332-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2005 |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $89.00 |
Book Description:
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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,...
More DescriptionThis 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.