Actresses on the Victorian Stage
Subtitle: Feminine Performance and the Galatea Myth (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780521027465
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Theatre, drama; c 1800 to c 1900; Theater - History & Criticism; Performing Arts; Drama; English; Plays; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; Drama / British & Irish; History : Europe - Great Britain - General; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism; Women in the theater--Great Britain--History-; Women in the theater--Great Britain--History--19th century; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: From its start, the nineteenth century in Britain was imbued with new possibilities for the proliferation of sculpturally informed aesthetic judgements and criteria, for it was then that Britain, France and America imported into their museums what were to become the best-known examples of Classical sculpture, statues which '[entered] deeply into the visual consciousness of educated Europe', which 'were used as touchstone[s] by artists, art lovers, collectors and theorists alike for the gauging of taste and quality'.