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List of illustrations page vii Notes on contributors ix Acknowledgements xii Introduction I MAGGIE B. GALE AND JOHN STOKES Part I: Turning points I Revolution, legislation and autonomy 15 GILLI BUSH-BAILEY z Spectacle, intellect and authority: the actress in the eighteenth century 33 ELIZABETH EGER 3 Cultural formations: the nineteenth-century touring actress and her international audiences 52 GAIL MARSHALL 4 The actress as photographic icon: from early photography to early film 74 DAVID MAYER 5 The actress and the profession: training in England in the twentieth century 95 LUCIE SUTHERLAND 6 Out of the ordinary: exercising restraint in the post-war years 116 JOHN STOKES 7 Icons and labourers: some political actresses 134 TONY HOWARD Part II: Professional opportunities 8 The actress as manager 157 JO ROBINSON 9 By herself: the actress and autobiography, 1755-1939 173 VIV GARDNER o1 The screen actress from silence to sound 193 CHRISTINE GLEDHILL 11 Side doors and service elevators: racial constraints for actresses of colour 215 LYNETTE GODDARD Part III: Genre, form and tradition iz Mirroring men: the actress in drag 235 JACKY BRATTON 13 'Studies in hysteria': actress and courtesan, Sarah Bernhardt and Mrs Patrick Campbell 253 ELAINE ASTON 14 Beyond the muse: the Spanish actress as collaborator ±72 MARIA M. DELGADO 15 Going solo: an historical perspective on the actress and the monologue 291 MAGGIE B. GALE 16 Changing Shakespeare: new possibilities for the modern actress 314 PENNY GAY General reading 317