{"product_id":"bloody-tyrants-and-little-pickles-marlis-schweitzer-9781609387365","title":"Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBloody Tyrants and Little Pickles\u003c\/i\u003e traces the theatrical repertoire of a small group of white Anglo-American actresses as they reshaped the meanings of girlhood in Britain, North America, and the British West Indies during the first half of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the possibilities and the problems girl performers presented as they adopted the manners and clothing of boys, entered spaces intended for adults, and assumed characters written for men. It asks why masculine roles like Young Norval, Richard III, Little Pickle, and Shylock came to seem \"normal\" and \"natural\" for young white girls to play, and it considers how playwrights, managers, critics, and audiences sought to contain or fix the at-times dangerous plasticity they exhibited both on and off the stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchweitzer analyzes the formation of a distinct repertoire for girls in the first half of the nineteenth century, which delighted in precocity and playfulness and offered up a model of girlhood that was similarly joyful and fluid. This evolving repertoire reflected shifting perspectives on girls' place within Anglo-American society, including where and how they should behave, and which girls had the right to appear at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marlis Schweitzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609387368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609387365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2021","brand":"Marlis Schweitzer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990837723391,"sku":"9781609387365","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c130ad73-ee99-422c-af62-76a300194769.jpg?v=1683306972","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bloody-tyrants-and-little-pickles-marlis-schweitzer-9781609387365","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}