Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines

ISBN-13: 9780367492427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 162 str.

Fiona Gregory

Opis

'Actresses and Mental Illness' investigates the relationship between the work of the actress and her personal experience of mental illness, from the late 19th through to the end of 20th century, showing how consideration of the personal experience of the actress influences our understanding of her work and its reception.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1 Performing the Rest Cure: Mrs Patrick Campbell  Chapter 2 The Minor Actress Undone: Peg Entwistle and Dorothy Hale  Chapter 3 The Actress and Addiction: Diana Barrymore  Chapter 4 Mythmaking Madness: Vivien Leigh  Chapter 5 Mad Actress as Icon: Frances Farmer

O autorze

Fiona Gregory is Lecturer in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University in Melbourne. Her research on the history of the actress has appeared in leading journals including New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre Survey, and Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film.