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"Playing Cleopatra argues that Parisian stage performances of Cleopatra engendered broader cultural and political debates regarding the meaning of womanhood and of Frenchness in France's Third Republic (1871-1940). In the context of late nineteenth-century Egyptomania, Cleopatra's eroticized image--as well as her controversial legacy of female empowerment--resonated in new ways with a French public engaged in reassessing feminine sexuality, racialized beauty, and national identity. By playing Cleopatra, Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, and Josephine Baker did more than personify a character.

Actresses --- Actresses. --- Actrices --- Femmes au théâtre --- Women in the theater --- Women in the theater. --- Women --- Histoire --- History --- Social conditions --- 1870-1940. --- France --- France.

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American drama --- Women in the theater --- Théâtre américain --- Femmes au théâtre --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Théâtre américain --- Femmes au théâtre --- United States

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This Companion brings together sixteen new essays which examine, from various perspectives, the social and cultural role of the actress throughout history and across continents. Each essay focuses on a particular stage in her development, for example professionalism in the seventeenth century; the emergence of the actress/critic during the Romantic period and, later on, of the actress as best selling autobiographer; the coming of the drama schools which led to today's emphasis on the actress as a highly-trained working woman. Chapters consider the image of the actress as a courtesan, as a 'muse', as a representative of the 'ordinary' housewife, and as a political activist. The collection also contains essays on forms, genres and traditions - on cross dressing, solo performance, racial constraints, and recent Shakespeare - as well as on the actress in early photography and on film. Its unique range will fascinate, surprise and instruct theatre-goers and students alike.

Acting --- Women in the theater. --- Motion picture actors and actresses --- Actresses. --- Femmes au théâtre --- Acteurs et actrices de cinéma --- Actrices --- Femmes au théâtre --- Acteurs et actrices de cinéma --- Women in the theater --- Actresses --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Essays --- Movies --- History --- International --- Professionnalisation --- Theatre --- Actors --- Book --- Edited volume

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Feminism and theater --- Women in the theater --- Féminisme et théâtre --- Femmes au théâtre --- History --- Histoire --- Fornes, Maria Irene --- Criticism and interpretation --- Critique et interprétation --- Féminisme et théâtre --- Femmes au théâtre --- Critique et interprétation --- History. --- United States --- 20th century --- Fornes, Maria Irene - Criticism and interpretation - History. --- Fornés, María Irene

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Les travaux consacrés à la relation entre théâtre et féminin qui adoptent une approche à la fois esthétique et politique de la question sont rares. L’ouvrage Théâtre et féminin, identité, sexualité, politique répond ainsi à cette attente . Afin de comprendre pourquoi et comment le théâtre - lieu d’écriture et de création – résiste traditionnellement aux femmes ainsi que les relations complexes qui se nouent entre théâtre et féminin au cœur des œuvres, l’ouvrage interroge les représentations du féminin au théâtre à travers la tenue d’un discours sur les femmes, féministe ou misogyne, la création de personnages féminins, tout particulièrement de personnages travestis, ou la promotion d’une stylistique dite féminine à l’écriture ou à la mise en scène. En se fondant sur l’étude d’un corpus de textes et de spectacles large et divers, anciens ou contemporains, il s’efforce de définir à quelles conditions le théâtre peut tenir un discours politique sur les sexes et sur les genres, sur la sexualité, sur la place des femmes dans la société et face au pouvoir.

Women in the theater --- Feminism and theater --- Drama --- Femmes au théâtre --- Féminisme et théâtre --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Sex role in the theater --- Sex in the theater --- Gender identity in literature --- Femmes au théâtre --- Féminisme et théâtre --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Femmes --- Identité sexuelle --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) --- Au théâtre