Actresses and Whores
Author | : Kirsten Pullen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2005-02-17 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521541022 |
Publisher Description
Download Actresses And Whores full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Actresses And Whores ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Kirsten Pullen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2005-02-17 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521541022 |
Publisher Description
Author | : Stella Duffy |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2011-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101552662 |
"A bravura performance: a witty, moving, sexy book that bursts with as much color and excitement as the city of Constantinople itself." -Financial Times Roman historian Procopius publicly praised Theodora of Constantinople for her piety-while secretly detailing her salacious stage act and maligning her as ruthless and power hungry. So who was this woman who rose from humble beginnings as a dancer to become the empress of Rome and a saint in the Orthodox Church? Award-winning novelist Stella Duffy vividly recreates the life and times of a woman who left her mark on one of the ancient world's most powerful empires. Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore is a sexy, captivating novel that resurrects an extraordinary, little-known figure from the dusty pages of history.
Author | : Elizabeth Howe |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1992-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521422109 |
This book describes how and why women were permitted to act on the public stage after 1660 in England.
Author | : Tyler Stoddard Smith |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1440538530 |
A Working History of Working Girls (and Guys) Have you ever wondered how Heidi Fleiss came to be the face of upscale prostitution or if Casanova really was the world's greatest lover? How about why Latin playboy Rubi Rubirosa got the nickname "The Ding Dong Daddy"? Anything but judgmental, Whore Stories sheds light on one of our more stigmatized icons: The Prostitute. Featuring the true stories of famous streetwalkers, call girls, rent boys, and go-go dancers, this book offers a revealing look at the men and women who have blazed the bawdy trail of prostitution since the dawn of time. While you may think that you know everything about this occupation, Whore Stories includes plenty of details and even celebrities, such as Maya Angelou and Bob Dylan, that will leave you in awe. From private schools and child preachers to mime fantasies and unfortunate amputations, this book uncovers the truth behind the world's oldest profession.
Author | : Jan Sewell |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 2020-04-29 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3030238288 |
This book brings together nearly 40 academics and theatre practitioners to chronicle and celebrate the courage, determination and achievements of women on stage across the ages and around the globe. The collection stretches from ancient Greece to present-day Australasia via the United States, Soviet Russia, Europe, India, South Africa and Japan, offering a series of analytical snapshots of women performers, their work and the conditions in which they produced it. Individual chapters provide in-depth consideration of specific moments in time and geography while the volume as a whole and its juxtapositions stimulate consideration of the bigger picture, underlining the challenges women have faced across cultures in establishing themselves as performers and the range of ways in which they gained access to the stage. Organised chronologically, the volume looks not just to the past but the future: it challenges the very notions of ‘history’, ‘stage’ and even the definition of ‘women’ itself.
Author | : Pamela Allen Brown |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780754665359 |
Offering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage was all male in early modern England. The editors and contributors argue that the pervasiveness of female performance affected cultural production, even on the professional London stages that used men and boys for women's parts. In short, Women Players in England 1500-1660 shows that women were dynamic cultural players in the early modern world.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Phoenix Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781597775427 |
Wild, graphic, sometimes funny, ultimately sad -- this is the book that had Hollywood hiding behind closed doors and "no comment." Four beautiful young women tell the stories of the famous, the sexy, the rich, and the sadistic.
Author | : Julia Swindells |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 2541 |
Release | : 2014-01-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191655201 |
The Oxford Handbook of the Georgian Theatre 1737-1832 provides an essential guide to theatre in Britain between the passing of the Stage Licensing Act in 1737 and the Reform Act of 1832 -- a period of drama long neglected but now receiving significant scholarly attention. Written by specialists from a range of disciplines, its forty essays both introduce students and scholars to the key texts and contexts of the Georgian theatre and also push the boundaries of the field, asking questions that will animate the study of drama in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries for years to come. The Handbook gives equal attention to the range of dramatic forms -- not just tragedy and comedy, but the likes of melodrama and pantomime -- as they developed and overlapped across the period, and to the occasions, communities, and materialities of theatre production. It includes sections on historiography, the censorship and regulation of drama, theatre and the Romantic canon, women and the stage, and the performance of race and empire. In doing so, the Handbook shows the centrality of theatre to Georgian culture and politics, and paints a picture of a stage defined by generic fluidity and experimentation; by networks of performance that spread far beyond London; by professional women who played pivotal roles in every aspect of production; and by its complex mediation of contemporary attitudes of class, race, and gender.
Author | : Daniel James Ennis |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780874139679 |
Prologues, Epilogues, Curtain-Raisers, and Afterpieces: The Rest of the Eighteenth-Century London Stage presents a fresh analysis of the complete theater evening that was available to playhouse audiences from the Restoration to the early nineteenth century. The contributing scholars focus not on the mainpiece, the advertised play itself, but on what surrounded the mainpiece for the total theater experience of the day. Various critical essays address artistic disciplines such as dance and theatrical portraits, while others concentrate on peripheral performance texts, including prologues, epilogues, pantomimes, and afterpieces, that merged to define the overall theatrical event.