Preface; 1. The actress and the anecdote; 2. 'So perverse was her wantonness': antitheatricalism and the actress; 3. In the beginning: 'Twelve Livres per year'; 4. 'Those diverting little ways': 1630–40; 5. 'Mademoiselle L'Étoile': 1640–1700; 6. 'Embellished by art': 1680–1720; 7. Lives and afterlives: 1700–2010; Works consulted.
Scott presents an engaging history of the actress in early modern France, examining their invaluable contributions to French theatre.
Virginia Scott is Professor Emerita in the Department of Theater, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She specializes in Commedia dell'arte and French theatre of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Her books include The Commedia dell'arte in Paris, which won the George Freedley award, and Molière: A Theatrical Life. Professor Scott is also a dramaturge, playwright, actor, and director.
'In this lively and engaging study, Virginia Scott examines the
careers of actresses in France from the late sixteenth to the early
eighteenth centuries, placing them firmly in their social and
artistic context. Refreshingly, she eschews anecdotal evidence,
thereby providing us, perhaps for the first time, with an unbiased
and even-handed account of her subjects' lives and work, but which
nonetheless explores the fascination these first celebrities have
exercised on audiences and critics both then and since.' Professor
Jan Clarke, Durham University
'This enjoyable book combines scholarship with readability and
makes a very significant contribution to the field of seventeenth
and eighteenth-century theatrical studies.' Restoration and
Eighteenth-century Theatre Research
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