Actresses on the Victorian stage :feminine performance and the Galatea myth
- 作者: Marshall, Gail,
- 出版: Cambridge ;New York : Cambridge University Press 1998.
- 稽核項: xiv, 233 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;16
- 標題: Actresses , Women in the theater , Actresses Great Britain -- Biography. , Biography. , Women in the theater Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. , Mentoring. , Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) , History
- ISBN: 0521620163 , 9780521620161
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-229) and index.
- 系統號: 005201043
- 資料類型: 圖書
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Gail Marshall argues that the professional and personal history of the Victorian actress was largely defined by her negotiation with the sculptural metaphor, and that this was authorized and determined by the Ovidian myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Drawing on evidence of theatrical fictions, visual representations and popular culture's assimilation of the sculptural image, as well as theatrical productions, she examines some of the manifestations of the sculptural metaphor on the legitimate English stage, and its implications for the actress in the later nineteenth century. Within the legitimate theatre, the 'Galatea-aesthetic' positioned actresses as predominantly visual and sexual commodities whose opportunities for interpretative engagement with their plays were minimal. This dominant aesthetic was effectively challenged only at the end of the century, with the advent of the 'New' drama, and the emergence of a body of autobiographical writings by actresses.
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