L. Woods

Gebundenes Buch

Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety

Celebrity Turns

Beschreibung

This book shows eminent actors performing under stringent conditions in vaudeville. It was a strange notion in 1900 that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of 'turns', with everything from song-and-dance to criminals regaling crowds with their exploits. It chronicles renowned actors showing rough fare in rough times.

Autor

LEIGH WOODS is Professor of Theatre and Drama and Head of Theatre Studies at the University of Michigan, USA.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-7536-2
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 307
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 146mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781403975362
• ISBN-10: 1403975361
• Artikelnr.: 22572563

Rezensionen

'Woods shows how international performers in American vaudeville and British music hall wrought new understandings of celebrity, gender, patriotism and empire. This lively storyilluminates an era in global culture that bears important lessons for our own time.' - Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers-Newark; Author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture