Performing Menken : Adah Isaacs Menken and the birth of American celebrity /

"Performing Menken uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period. Menken succeeded by playing with her identity off-stage and on, portraying herself as both respectable and daring and claiming various racial and eth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sentilles, Renée M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Menken, Adah Isaacs, > 1835-1868.
Menken, Adah Isaacs, > 1835-1868
Menken, Adah Isaacs.
Actors > United States > Biography.
Acteurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Acting & Auditioning.
Actors
United States
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Playing Deborah
  • Playing the pugilist's wife: 1859-1860
  • Performing Mazeppa
  • Performing Menken
  • Among the Bohemians
  • Becoming Mazeppa
  • Becoming the Menken: 1864-1866
  • Finale
  • Remembering and rewriting Menken.

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