Jacky Bratton: 2 books
The Making of the West End Stage
Marriage, Management and the Mapping of Gender in London, 1830–1870
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
All roads lead to London - and to the West End theatre. This book presents a new history of the beginnings of the modern world of London entertainment. Putting female-centred, gender-challenging managements and styles at the centre, it redraws the map of performance history in the Victorian capital...
Women and Comedy
History, Theory, Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences...