Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870 Book

Name: Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870
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Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870, This lively, engaging book explores how women were depicted in the antebellum American theatre during the period when the entertainment industry was taking shape and the first women's rights movement emerged. Through a series of vivid biographical sketche, Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870

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Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870
Written by author Faye E. Dudden
Published by Yale University Press, February 1997
This lively, engaging book explores how women were depicted in the antebellum American theatre during the period when the entertainment industry was taking shape and the first women's rights movement emerged. Through a series of vivid biographical sketche
This lively, engaging book explores how women were depicted in the antebellum American theatre during the period when the entertainment industry was taking shape and the first women's rights movement emerged. Through a series of vivid biographical sketche

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Acting Female
1 Power and Danger at the Theatre 1
2 Starring: Fanny Kemble and the Actress as Heroine 27
3 Spectacles: Thomas Hamblin and His Women 56
4 Female Ambition: Charlotte Cushman Seizes the Stage 75
5 Segmentation: Many Theatres 104
6 Managing: The Decline of Laura Keene 123
7 The Rise of the Leg Show 149
Conclusion: Looking at Women 182
Notes 185
Selected Bibliography 241
Index 251

Title: Women in the American Theatre: Actresses and Audiences, 1790-1870

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I knew Professor Sue-Cllen case as a relatively inexperienced young playwright and screenwriter wannabe while in the School of Drama at University of Washington back in the day and found her pompous, a know-it-all, and arrogant. So is her book. Too bad.

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	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Acting Female
1	Power and Danger at the Theatre	1
2	Starring: Fanny Kemble and the Actress as Heroine	27
3	Spectacles: Thomas Hamblin and His Women	56
4	Female Ambition: Charlotte Cushman Seizes the Stage	75
5	Segmentation: Many Theatres	104
6	Managing: The Decline of Laura Keene	123
7	The Rise of the Leg Show	149
	Conclusion: Looking at Women	182
	Notes	185
	Selected Bibliography	241
	Index	251