Overview
- Explores the history of women performing comedy on the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century popular stage
- Examines the evolution of the exclusively female ‘serio-comic’ performers and considers their influence on the development of stand-up comedy and other contemporary comic performance
- Draws parallels between music-hall artists such as Marie Lloyd, Vesta Victoria, Bessie Bellwood and Nellie Wallace and contemporary performers including Bridget Christie, Sarah Silverman, Shazia Mirza, Bryony Kimmings, Sara Pascoe and Luisa Omielan
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)
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Sam Beale teaches solo performance and stand-up comedy on the Theatre Arts programmes at Middlesex University, London. She researches into and writes about comic performance, gender and performance and the history of comedy and popular performance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920
Book Subtitle: Brazen Impudence and Boisterous Vulgarity
Authors: Sam Beale
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47941-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47940-4Published: 05 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47943-5Published: 06 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47941-1Published: 04 September 2020
Series ISSN: 2731-4332
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 289
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comedy Studies, Performing Arts, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies