{"product_id":"curtain-calls-mary-anne-schofield-9780821409572","title":"Curtain Calls: British and American Women and the Theater, 1660-1820","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I here and there o'heard a Coxcomb cry, \u003cbr\u003e Ah, rot-'tis a Woman's Comedy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThus Aphra Behn ushers in a new era for women in the British Theatre (Sir Patient Fancy, 1678). In the hundred years that were to follow-and exactly those years that \u003ci\u003eCurtain Calls\u003c\/i\u003e examines-women truly took the theater world by storm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor each woman who chose a career in the theater world of the eighteenth century, there is a unique tale of struggle, insult, success, good or bad fortune, disaster, seduction, or fame. Whether acting, writing, reviewing, or stage managing, women played a major, if frequently unacknowledged, role in the history of the theater from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries. From Alpha Behn's earliest plays through the glorious celebrity of Sara Siddons, women molded the taste of the age and carved out in the theater one of the few available opportunities for independence and renown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNot all the women who tried succeeded, of course, and even the best faced opposition as they challenged the male stronghold of playwriting and theater managing. \u003ci\u003eCurtain Calls\u003c\/i\u003e maps the new territory as these pioneering women staked it for their own; it chronicles their lives, their triumphs, and their losses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWe begin with Aphra Behn, whose first play was staged in 1670, and conclude in the early decades of the nineteenth century with Inchbald and Siddons. The one hundred and fifty years encompassed by their lives contain the careers of dozens of lesser-known women, a network, as Dr. Johnson would have it, encompassing both talent and tribulation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors include: Edward Langhans, Linda R. Payne, Pat Rogers, Maureen e. Mulvihill, Deborah Payne, Betty Rizzo, Ellen Donkin, Frances M. Kavenik, Jessica Munns, nancy Cotton, Edna L. Steevs, Doreen Saar, Jean B. Kern, Katherine M. Rogers, Constance Clark, William J. Burling, Judith Phillips Stanton, Douglas Butler, Rose Zimbardo, and the editors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Anne Schofield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821409573\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821409572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Mary Anne Schofield","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45476871438591,"sku":"9780821409572","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9c99733-bc58-4aa7-81da-f7cd36005f89.jpg?v=1715918402","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/curtain-calls-mary-anne-schofield-9780821409572","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}