Queens of the Stage: 5 Classic Books Celebrating Women of the Theatre
Five Classic Portraits of Actresses, Celebrity, and Women's Theatre HistoryBy Forrest Izard, T. Edgar Pemberton, WÅ'adysÅ'aw StanisÅ'aw Reymont, Ellen Terry, H. Noel Williams
Length50h 34m
About this audiobook
Queens of the Stage gathers five classic works that illuminate women's theatrical achievement through biography, memoir, criticism, and cultural history. Moving between intimate recollection and broader accounts of performance, celebrity, and public life, the volume traces how actresses shaped the modern stage while negotiating expectations of gender, class, and artistic authority. Its varied forms—especially firsthand theatrical reflection alongside interpretive portraiture—make the collection both a record of individual careers and a study of theatre's changing social prestige. The contributors bring complementary perspectives to this history. Forrest Izard, T. Edgar Pemberton, and H. Noel Williams write from traditions of theatrical commentary and literary biography, attending to the institutions, reputations, and audiences that made stage stardom possible. WÅ'adysÅ'aw StanisÅ'aw Reymont extends the collection's cultural range through a major Polish literary sensibility, while Ellen Terry's presence connects the volume directly to the lived craft and public consciousness of performance. Together, these voices situate women of the theatre within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century currents of realism, celebrity culture, and transnational modernity. Recommended for students of drama, cultural history, and women's writing, this anthology offers an unusually rich encounter with theatrical lives from multiple angles. Readers will find educational value in its breadth of genres and contexts, and in the productive dialogue between personal testimony, literary imagination, and historical assessment.
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GenreOther, Literary Classics
Length50 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Ellen Terry and Her Sisters
26HEROINES OF THE MODERN STAGE
2CHAPTER I
27SARAH BERNHARDT
3CHAPTER II
28HELENA MODJESKA
4CHAPTER III
29ELLEN TERRY
5CHAPTER V
30GABRIELLE RÉJANE
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6CHAPTER VI
31ELEONORA DUSE
7CHAPTER VII
32ADA REHAN
8CHAPTER X
33MARY ANDERSON
9CHAPTER XII
34MRS. FISKE
10CHAPTER XIII
35JULIA MARLOWE
11CHAPTER XIV
36MAUDE ADAMS
12The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections
37SOME AMERICAN ACTRESSES OF TODAY
13THE STORY OF MY LIFE
38APPENDIX THE FIRST ENGLISH ACTRESSES, AND THE CHANGE IN THE ACTOR’S SOCIAL STATUS
14II
39Later Queens of the French Stage
15III
40LATER QUEENS OF THE FRENCH STAGE (pt. 1)
16V
41LATER QUEENS OF THE FRENCH STAGE (pt. 2)
17VI
42II MADEMOISELLE GUIMARD
18VIII
43III MADEMOISELLE RAUCOURT
19IX
44IV MADAME DUGAZON
20X
45V MADEMOISELLE CONTAT
21XII
46VI MADAME SAINT-HUBERTY
22XIII (pt. 1)
47The Comedienne
23XIII (pt. 2)
48CHAPTER I
24Heroines of the Modern Stage
49CHAPTER III
25PREFACE
50CHAPTER IV
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