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Ellen Terry: Shakespearean Actress and CriticUniversity Of Leeds gail.marshall{at}ntlworld.com This article examines the role and reputation of Ellen Terry, the most eminent British Shakespearean actress of the late-Victorian period, and the extent to which she interrogated her function on the eminently spectacular stage of Londons Lyceum theatre. The article contends that in her writing her autobiography, annotations of playscripts and lectures Terry self-consciously and deliberately repositions herself as a Shakespeare commentator, and hence as one no longer subject to the temporal and visual limitations of the spectacular stage.
Key Words: actress annotation Shakespeare spectacular Ellen Terry Victorian
European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 11, No. 3,
355-364 (2004) |
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