商品簡介
This volume surveys the theatrical repertory and daily performance roles of female actors during the antebellum and Civil War eras in the south, focusing on the years between 1800 and 1865, theaters in major southern cities, and actresses Eliza Arnold Poe, Adah Isaacs Menken, Charlotte Wrighten Placide, Mary Maury Squires Ludlow, and Martha Matthews Smith, as well as discussing Jane Placide, Frances Denny Drake, Julia Drake Chapman, Caroline Chapman, Julia Drake Fosdick Dean, Julia Dean Hayne, Eliza Riddle Field, Eliza Logan Wood, and Eliza Crisp. It describes the major families who performed on the southern stage during the period and the contributions of their female members, the history of theatrical activity in the South, the repertory, parts actresses played on stage and in their personal lives, those who worked for pay, how these actresses complicated sexual roles and ideas, how white actresses depicted different racial identities in their roles, and performance during the Civil War as plays served as political propaganda, as well as the rise of the "combination" company after the Civil War. The appendix contains an annotated bibliography of popular plays performed by southern companies during the period, with plot synopses. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
作者簡介
Robin O. Warren earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia. She has published several articles on 19th-century performance in the South and has taught in the Georgia public school system for 20 years. She lives in Clarkesville, Georgia.
