London's West End Actresses : and the Origins of Celebrity Charity, 1880-1920
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 94043683
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- ISBN
- 9781609384258
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- In the 1880s and 1890s, the stars of fin-de-siècle London’s fashionable stage culture—particularly the women—transformed theatre’s connection with fundraising, and in the process, actresses established a model and set of practices that persist today among the stars of both London’s West End and Hollywood. This substantial monograph (222 pp.) is the first on this area of theatrical activity, and draws on extended, interdisciplinary research over a four-year period at a wide range of archives. It has shifted our understanding of the relationship between the commercial theatre industry, celebrity women and theatre's social and cultural loci in this period.
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- Non-English
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