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Alekson, Paula T.

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The mythos of Madame Vestris: Theatrical memoir and the "consequence of performance".

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The mythos of Madame Vestris: Theatrical memoir and the "consequence of performance"./
Author:	Alekson, Paula T.
Description:	236 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Laurence P. Senelick.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3217068
ISBN:	9780542683862

The mythos of Madame Vestris: Theatrical memoir and the "consequence of performance".
Alekson, Paula T.

The mythos of Madame Vestris: Theatrical memoir and the "consequence of performance". - 236 p.

Adviser: Laurence P. Senelick.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2006.

Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris Mathews (1797-1856), better known to theatre audiences in the first half of the nineteenth century as Madame Vestris, commanded one of the highest salaries in the London theatre, garnered much of the city's periodical and print attention, was the darling of theatrical memorabilia and ephemera manufacturers and the adored celebrity sex object to "theatricalia" consumers of her day. In addition, as both actress and minor theatre manager, she worked and competed for receipts, reformed the reputation and stage practices of the minor theatres, and went on to manage one of London's great patent theatres, Covent Garden. Despite these extraordinary accomplishments, much of what was written about Vestris, from her rise to fame in the mid-1820s to the middle of the next century, can be described as chiefly anecdotal and almost completely sensationalist; more was made of her presumed scandalous private life, her reported financial extravagance, and the shapeliness of her legs than of her management and its lasting impact upon the modern realistic theatre.

ISBN: 9780542683862Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

The mythos of Madame Vestris: Theatrical memoir and the "consequence of performance".
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520 $a Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi Vestris Mathews (1797-1856), better known to theatre audiences in the first half of the nineteenth century as Madame Vestris, commanded one of the highest salaries in the London theatre, garnered much of the city's periodical and print attention, was the darling of theatrical memorabilia and ephemera manufacturers and the adored celebrity sex object to "theatricalia" consumers of her day. In addition, as both actress and minor theatre manager, she worked and competed for receipts, reformed the reputation and stage practices of the minor theatres, and went on to manage one of London's great patent theatres, Covent Garden. Despite these extraordinary accomplishments, much of what was written about Vestris, from her rise to fame in the mid-1820s to the middle of the next century, can be described as chiefly anecdotal and almost completely sensationalist; more was made of her presumed scandalous private life, her reported financial extravagance, and the shapeliness of her legs than of her management and its lasting impact upon the modern realistic theatre.
520 $a This study examines the abundance of popular printed media which celebrated Vestris as its subject, including dubious theatrical memoirs and biographies, periodical lambastings, bawdy ballads, caricatures, and additional ephemeral fabrications which were produced during her forty-year career and long after her death. Much of this specious material, which is chiefly responsible for the construction of the persona and image of the mythical Madame Vestris, has been gleaned and reprinted by theatre historians, without critical analysis, contextualization or interpretation for more than a century. In placing these documents, with a central focus on theatrical memoir, under a critical feminist lens and in their appropriate context, the historical and mythological phenomenon of Madame Vestris is revealed to be the product of a confluence of social trends, cultural attitudes and personal liabilities. This study traces the roots of this powerful, persistent, and problematic mythos, explores its evolution and mutability throughout her career, and outlines its deleterious impact on the actor-manager's historical reception in the late-nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.
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