The Cambridge Companion to the Actress (repost)
The Cambridge Companion to the Actress (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by John Stokes and Maggie B. Gale
English | ISBN: 0521608546 | 2007 | PDF | 355 pages | 14,3 mb
English | ISBN: 0521608546 | 2007 | PDF | 355 pages | 14,3 mb
This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine, from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the actress throughout history and across continents. Each essay focuses on a particular stage in her development, for example professionalism in the seventeenth century; the emergence of the actress/critic during the Romantic period and, later on, of the actress as best selling autobiographer; the coming of the drama schools which led to today's emphasis on the actress as a highly-trained working woman.