Women in the American Theatre

Women in the American Theatre
Author: Faye E. Dudden
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300070583

Through a series of biographical sketches of female performers and managers, Dudden provides a discussion of the conflicted messages conveyed by the early theatre about what it meant to be a woman. It both showed women as sex objects and provided opportunities for careers.