Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914
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Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914

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Autocratic male impresarios increasingly dominated the American stage between 1865 and 1914. Many rose from poor immigrant roots and built their own careers by making huge stars out of as well as gender, sexual, and class dynamics, tapped into the contradictory fantasies and aspirations of their audiences. Played out against a backdrop of enormous cultural and institution...more
Hardcover, 378 pages
Published December 1st 2006 by University Of Iowa Press
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