Auto/biography and identity: Women, Theatre and Performance - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719063337 ISBN 13: 9780719063336

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This book looks at how a range of women in the theatre use autobiography and performance as a means of expression and control of their private and public selves on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

About this title

About the Authors

Maggie B. Gale is Professor and Chair in Drama at The University of Manchester

Maggie B. Gale is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham

Viv Gardner is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Manchester

From the Back Cover

This groundbreaking book shows how female performers - one of the first groups of professional women - used and still use autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves, the 'face and the mask'. It looks at how a range of women in the theatre - actors, managers, writers and live artists - have done this on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth-century to the present day, testing the boundaries between gender, theatre and autobiographical form.

This paperback edition facilitates connections - between texts and performances, past and present practitioners, professional and private selves, individuals and communities, all of which have in some way renegotiated identity through autobiography and the creative act.
'Auto/biography and identity' is a landmark in theatre history and performance analysis, in gender and cultural theory, and autobiographical studies.

From the Inside Flap

This groundbreaking book shows how female performers - one of the first groups of professional women - used and still use autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves, the 'face and the mask'. It looks at how a range of women in the theatre - actors, managers, writers and live artists - have done this on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth-century to the present day, testing the boundaries between gender, theatre and autobiographical form. This paperback edition facilitates connections - between texts and performances, past and present practitioners, professional and private selves, individuals and communities, all of which have in some way renegotiated identity through autobiography and the creative act.'Auto/biography and identity' is a landmark in theatre history and performance analysis, in gender and cultural theory, and autobiographical studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719063337
• ISBN 13: 9780719063336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Gale Maggie B., Gardner Viv