Just one of the boys : female-to-male cross-dressing on the American variety stage /
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| Author / Creator: | Rodger, Gillian M. author. |
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| Imprint: | Urbana : Chicago : Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2018] |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Music in American Life Ser. Music in American Life Ser. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11758599 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Female Hamlets and Romeos: Cross-Dressing Actresses in Nineteenth-Century Theater; 2 The First Generation of Performers, 1868â#x80;#x93;1880: Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner; 3 Increasing Competition during the 1870s: Augusta Lamareaux and Blanche Selwyn; 4 The Second Generation of Performers: Maggie Weston and Minnie Hall; 5 Ella Wesner and English Male Impersonation; 6 Changing Performance Contexts and Management Styles in the 1880s; 7 Male Impersonation in the 1880s and 1890s: Annie Hindle and Ella Wesner.
- 8 English Male Impersonation in America: Changing Aesthetics, Changing Performance Style9 Male Impersonation in the New Century; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Photographs.