" Actresses as Working Women" by Tracy C. Davis (Book Review)

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Tracy C. Davis, Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (London: Routledge, 1991) At the 1991 ADSA Conference Professor Wilmar Sauter suggested that theatre historian needed more theory and theatre theorists needed more history. Tracy C. Davis's book, the first in a series on gender in performance from Routledge, would appear in many ways to satisfy the need identified by Sauter. Drawing on a range of methodologies, including the New History, social demography, semiotics and feminist theory, she lucidly reveals the working experience of nineteenth-century British actresses and places them frmnly in the context of Victorian society and culture. Implicitly, she also provides a model for further studies in nineteenth-century theatre history. She avoids, on the one hand, the ratherbland and literary bias that still characterises some work in this area, whilst steering clear of the …

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1992

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