The Cambridge Companion to the Actress

by John Stokes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521608546
• ISBN13: 9780521608541
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"