Actresses and Mental Illness: Histrionic Heroines

ISBN-13: 9781138490338 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 162 str.

Fiona Gregory

Opis

This book examines the relationship between the work of the actress and her personal history of mental illness.

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.