ID - 313870 TI - Women on the stage in early modern France : 1540-1750 PY - 2010 SN - 9780521896757 0521896754 9780511777066 9780511776700 0511776705 9780511775185 0511775180 9780511774126 0511774125 051177706X 0511850328 1107212197 128265537X 9786612655371 0511775946 0511773056 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Theatrical science KW - France KW - Actresses KW - Theater KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:313870 AB - Focusing on actresses in France during the early modern period, Virginia Scott examines how the stereotype of the actress has been constructed. The study then moves beyond that stereotype to detail the reality of the personal and artistic lives of women on the French stage, from the almost unknown Marie Ferré - who signed a contract for 12 livres a year in 1545 to perform the 'antiquailles de Rome or other histories, moralities, farces, and acrobatics' in the provinces - to the queens of the eighteenth-century Paris stage, whose 'adventures' have overshadowed their artistic triumphs. The book also investigates the ways in which actresses made invaluable contributions to the development of the French theatre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and looks at the 'afterlives' of such women as Armande Béjart, Marquise Du Parc, Charlotte Desmares, Adrienne Lecouvreur, and Hippolyte Clairon in biographies, plays, and films. ER -