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When Romeo was a woman : Charlotte Cushman and her circle of female spectators
Title:
When Romeo was a woman : Charlotte Cushman and her circle of female spectators
Author:
Merrill, Lisa.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, [1999]

©1999
Physical Description:
xxv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Crossings: passion embodied and remembered -- The hero in the family and on the stage -- "Is such love wrong?" -- Embodying strong(-minded) women: the shapes Charlotte Cushman wore onstage -- Wearing the breeches: Charlotte Cushman's male roles -- Scribbling circles and strange sympathies: Charlotte Cushman's London circle of lovers and friends -- Building a community: Charlotte Cushman's Roman salon -- The Sapphic family -- The backlash and beyond.
ISBN:
9780472107995
Format :
Book