Leigh Woods
Biographic Data
| ID | 3652609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leigh Woods |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leigh |
| FAMILY NAME | Woods |
| SIGNATURE | WOODS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety
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
Precious Brits, 1904–1912
Whether the world was ready or not, the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth century. Britain hadn’t yet set aside its foothold in the New World, nor been fought to a standstill by the undermanned, under-armed Boers. Easier travel, the common language, and a booming American economy were bringing more British actors to North American shores. Music-hall and variety performers were turning up in vaudeville, too, at the same time as vaudevil…
“The Golden Calf”: Noted English Actresses in American Vaudeville, 1904–1916
Peer Reviewed
The Curse of Performance: Inscripting the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi into the Life of Charles Dickens
Written frankly for money, Charles Dickens' biography of the English stage-clown, Joseph Grimaldi, has generally been dismissed as hackwork. Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi , though, discloses persistent Victorian attitudes toward performers and performing, and anticipates in uncanny ways the biographical commentary that surrounds Dickens's own career as a performer
As If I Had Been Another Man: Dickens, Transformation, and an Alternative Theatre
It is well known that Charles Dickens gave hundreds of paid readings of his own works during the last twelve years of his life. Several of his biographers have noted that the writer cleared nearly one-half of his estate, or more than ?40,000, from such readings.' A much less intensively examined element of Dickens's career as a performer has been his efforts as an amateur actor. A close look at this earlier area of the writer's endeavor anticipat…
Three Augustan Women Play-Wrights
A Mirror to Nature: Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics 1660-1732
The Garrick Collection of Old English Plays, a Catalogue. With an Historical Introduction
Garrick Claims the Stage: Acting as Social Emblem in Eighteenth-Century England
Schweyk in the Second World War
Garrick Claims the Stage: Acting as Social Emblem in Eighteenth-Century England
As If I Had Been Another Man: Dickens, Transformation, and an Alternative Theatre
It is well known that Charles Dickens gave hundreds of paid readings of his own works during the last twelve years of his life. Several of his biographers have noted that the writer cleared nearly one-half of his estate, or more than ?40,000, from such readings.' A much less intensively examined element of Dickens's career as a performer has been his efforts as an amateur actor. A close look at this earlier area of the writer's endeavor anticipat…
A Mirror to Nature: Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics 1660-1732
Schweyk in the Second World War
Garrick Claims the Stage: Acting as Social Emblem in Eighteenth-Century England
The Garrick Collection of Old English Plays, a Catalogue. With an Historical Introduction
A Mirror to Nature: Transformations in Drama and Aesthetics 1660-1732
As If I Had Been Another Man: Dickens, Transformation, and an Alternative Theatre
It is well known that Charles Dickens gave hundreds of paid readings of his own works during the last twelve years of his life. Several of his biographers have noted that the writer cleared nearly one-half of his estate, or more than ?40,000, from such readings.' A much less intensively examined element of Dickens's career as a performer has been his efforts as an amateur actor. A close look at this earlier area of the writer's endeavor anticipat…
Three Augustan Women Play-Wrights
The Curse of Performance: Inscripting the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi into the Life of Charles Dickens
Written frankly for money, Charles Dickens' biography of the English stage-clown, Joseph Grimaldi, has generally been dismissed as hackwork. Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi , though, discloses persistent Victorian attitudes toward performers and performing, and anticipates in uncanny ways the biographical commentary that surrounds Dickens's own career as a performer
“The Golden Calf”: Noted English Actresses in American Vaudeville, 1904–1916
Peer Reviewed
Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety
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
Precious Brits, 1904–1912
Whether the world was ready or not, the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth century. Britain hadn’t yet set aside its foothold in the New World, nor been fought to a standstill by the undermanned, under-armed Boers. Easier travel, the common language, and a booming American economy were bringing more British actors to North American shores. Music-hall and variety performers were turning up in vaudeville, too, at the same time as vaudevil…
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