Women on the Stage in Early Modern France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women on the Stage in Early Modern France write by Virginia Scott. This book was released on 2010-07-08. Women on the Stage in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown Marie Ferré - who signed a contract for 12 livres a year in 1545 to perform the 'antiquailles de Rome or other histories, moralities, farces, and acrobatics' in the provinces - to the queens of the eighteenth-century Paris stage, whose 'adventures' have overshadowed their artistic triumphs. The book also investigates the ways in which actresses made invaluable contributions to the development of the French theatre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and looks at the 'afterlives' of such women as Armande Béjart, Marquise Du Parc, Charlotte Desmares, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Hippolyte Clairon in biographies, plays, and films.
Women on the Stage in Early Modern France
Women on the Stage in Early Modern France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women on the Stage in Early Modern France write by Virginia Scott. This book was released on 2010-07-08. Women on the Stage in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown Marie Ferré - who signed a contract for 12 livres a year in 1545 to perform the 'antiquailles de Rome or other histories, moralities, farces, and acrobatics' in the provinces - to the queens of the eighteenth-century Paris stage, whose 'adventures' have overshadowed their artistic triumphs. The book also investigates the ways in which actresses made invaluable contributions to the development of the French theatre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and looks at the 'afterlives' of such women as Armande Béjart, Marquise Du Parc, Charlotte Desmares, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Hippolyte Clairon in biographies, plays, and films.
Perilous Performances
Perilous Performances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perilous Performances write by Katherine Crawford. This book was released on 2004-11-30. Perilous Performances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Katherine Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France. The reigns of child kings loosened the normative structure in which adult males headed the body politic, setting the stage for innovative claims to authority made on gendered terms. When assuming the regency, Catherine de Medicis presented herself as dutiful mother, devoted widow, and benign peacemaker, masking her political power. In subsequent regencies, Marie de Medicis and Anne of Austria developed strategies that naturalized a regendering of political structures. They succeeded so thoroughly that Philippe d'Orleans found that this rhetoric at first supported but ultimately undermined his authority. Regencies demonstrated that power did not necessarily work from the places, bodies, or genders in which it was presumed to reside. While broadening the terms of monarchy, regencies involving complex negotiations among child kings, queen mothers, and royal uncles made clear that the state continued regardless of the king--a point not lost on the Revolutionaries or irrelevant to the fate of Marie-Antoinette.
Going Public
Going Public - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Going Public write by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith. This book was released on 1995. Going Public available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring the ways in which French women went public through publication, this book shows how they contributed to the formation of the public sphere in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Going Public also takes the critical literature on the woman writer to a new level by examining the implications of print publicity. The contributors investigate the intersection of gender and publicity in a wide range of printed texts, from memoirs and legal briefs to novels, poems, and fairy tales. In doing so they reveal much about why individual women drawn from the whole spectrum of society embraced the medium of print and about the impact this form of publicity had on their lives.
Beyond Spain's Borders
Beyond Spain's Borders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Spain's Borders write by Anne J. Cruz. This book was released on 2016-11-03. Beyond Spain's Borders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 10 Isabel Farnese and the Sexual Politics of the Spanish Court Theater -- Index
