Actresses, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Playing Women by Helen Brooks

Actresses, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Playing Women

Helen Brooks

216 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

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Over the course of the eighteenth century notions of what it meant to be a woman changed radically. Through examining the work of actresses including Anne Oldfield, Peg Woffington, Dora Jordan, and Sarah Siddons, Helen Brooks reveals how female pe...

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