172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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Actresses and Mental Illness investigates the relationship between the work of the actress and her personal experience of mental illness, from the late nineteenth through to the end of twentieth century. Over the past two decades scholars have made great advances in our understanding of the history of the actress, unearthing the material conditions of her working life, the force... Read more
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
Biography
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.
