Acting Women: Images of Women in Theatre (Women in Society)
By Lesley Ferris.
Description
A study based on the question as to whether there is a boundary between playacting and the "self". The author asks if society and culture conditions women to internalize a means for survival which centers on auditioning, dressing up and wearing costume. It focuses on the revelation that beyond the literary analysis of texts it is performance which offers a key to understanding the social construction of gender as well as the ambigious position of women in the theatre. The author gives a historical analysis of the changing position of women in the theatre from English Renaissance a...
ISBN(s)
0333432916, 9780333432914
