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Better a shrew than a sheep
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- Brown, Pamela Allen
Better a shrew than a sheep
Challenging the assumption that early modern comic culture was created by men for men, Brown shows that jest books, plays, and ballads represented women as laugh-getters and sought out the laughter of ordinary women. Disputing the claim that non-elite women had little access to popular culture because of their low literacy and social marginality, Brown shows that women often bested all corners in the arenas of jesting.- Creator
- Brown, Pamela Allen
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Wicked words, virtuous voices
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- Corporaal, Marguérite
Wicked words, virtuous voices
In the Renaissance and Early Restauration women had to be silent and in tragedies they had a wicked image. In this period, women also started to write plays for their family. Analysed are the tragedies of Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary and Margaret Cavendish.- Creator
- Corporaal, Marguérite
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Shakespeare's daughters
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- Hamilton, Sharon
Shakespeare's daughters
Study about the family relationships that Shakespeare (1564-1616) depicted play after play: that between father and daughter: Juliet and Capulet ('Romeo and Juliet'), Miranda and Prospero ('The tempest'), Hermia ('A Midsummer Night's Dream'), Ophelio and Polonius ('Hamlet'), Rosalind and Duke Senior ('As you like it'), Perdita and Leontes ('The Winter's Tale'), Cordelia, Regan, Goneril, and Lear ('King Lear').- Creator
- Hamilton, Sharon
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Sophie Tucker
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- Fields, Armond
Sophie Tucker
Sophie Tucker appeared in seven American stage musicals and appeared only twice on Broadway but it was difficult to cast her in a show. A ebullient performer, she quickly found that playing herself was most effective. .This is a biography of a vaudeville and cabaret performer who saw herself as one of the first liberated women and one of the last 'red hot mamas.' It tells the story of her birth as her mother traveled to Boston from Russia, her childhood in Boston, and her first public performance at Poli’s Vaudeville Theatre at the age of 13. It also tells the story of her troubled marriage to Louis Tuck and the birth of their son, her meeting with Willie Howard, a vaudeville veteran who encouraged her to go to New York and pursue a stage career, her discovery by Flo Ziegfeld (of the Ziegfeld Follies), and her rise to headliner status under the guidance of her agent William Morris. She was best known for appearing on stage with just a piano player, and openly discussing her life and Jewish upbringing.- Creator
- Fields, Armond
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The furious lesbian
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- Schanke, Robert A.
The furious lesbian
In this biography of Mercedes de Acosta Schanke mines lost archival materials and mixes in his own interviews with de Acosta’s intimates to correct established myths and at last construct an accurate and vibrant portrait of the flamboyantly early-twentieth-century author, poet, and playwright. .Born to wealthy Spanish immigrants, Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968) lived in opulence and traveled in the same social circles as the Astors and Vanderbilts. Introduced to the New York theater scene at an early age, her dual loves of performance and of women informed every aspect of her life thereafter. Alice B. Toklas’s observation, “Say what you will about Mercedes, she’s had the most important women in the twentieth century,” was well justified, as her romantic conquests included such internationally renowned beauties as Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Isadora Duncan, and Eva Le Gallienne as well as Alla Nazimova, Tamara Karsavina, Pola Negri, and Ona Munson. .More than a record of her personal life and infamous romances, this account offers the first analysis of the complete oeuvre of de Acosta’s literary works, including three volumes of poetry, two novels, two film scripts, and a dozen plays.- Creator
- Schanke, Robert A.
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Shakespeare's heroines
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- Jameson, Anna
- Slights, Jessica > (forew.)
- Paget, W. > (ill.)
Shakespeare's heroines
In this book, first published in 1832, the author places 25 female characters from Shakespeare's plays in one of four categories: intellect, passion and imagination, the affections, and historical characters, and discusses what being a woman means, as compared to feminine and masculine stereotypes and period expectations.- Creator
- Jameson, Anna
- Slights, Jessica > (forew.)
- Paget, W. > (ill.)
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Languages of theatre shaped by women
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- Goodman, Lizbeth > (ed.)
- Gay, Jane de > (ed.)
Languages of theatre shaped by women
This book offers an insight into the creative processes of a selection of women performers working in a variety of forms - live performance art, multi-media, new media technologies, video and radio, as well as stage drama.- Creator
- Goodman, Lizbeth > (ed.)
- Gay, Jane de > (ed.)
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American theatre book of monologues for women
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- Coen, Stephanie > (ed.)
American theatre book of monologues for women
Collection of monologues, grouped in chapters by themes and connections. Relevant information about the character and other background about the play is included in the introductory paragraph to each piece.- Creator
- Coen, Stephanie > (ed.)
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Vanishing women
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- Beckman, Karen
Vanishing women
Drawing on cinema studies and psychoanalysis as well as the histories of magic, spiritualism, and photography, Beckman looks at particular instances of female vanishing at specific historical moments - in Victorian magic's obsessive manipulation of female and colonized bodies, spiritualist photography's search to capture traces of ghosts, the comings and goings of bodies in early cinema, and Bette Davis's multiple roles as a fading female star.- Creator
- Beckman, Karen
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