This book shows eminent actors performing under stringent conditions in vaudeville. It was a strange notion in 1900 that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of 'turns', with everything from song-and-dance to criminals regaling crowds with their exploits. It chronicles renowned actors showing rough fare in rough times.

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'Woods shows how international performers in American vaudeville and British music hall wrought new understandings of celebrity, gender, patriotism and empire. This lively storyilluminates an era in global culture that bears important lessons for our own time.' - Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers-Newark; Author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture

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LEIGH WOODS is Professor of Theatre and Drama and Head of Theatre Studies at the University of Michigan, USA.

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Book Title: Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety
Book Subtitle: Celebrity Turns
Authors: Leigh Woods
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09739-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7536-2Published: 16 December 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-09739-2Published: 23 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 307
Topics: Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Literature, general, Cultural Anthropology, US History

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