Moira Goff's The Incomparable Hester Santlow: A Dancer-Actress on the PDF

By Moira Goff

ISBN-10: 0754658058

ISBN-13: 9780754658054

within the first full-length examine of the English dancer-actress Hester Santlow, Moira Goff makes a speciality of her strange profession at Drury Lane among 1706 and 1733. Goff charts Santlow's repertoire and makes large use of archival assets to enquire either her dancing and appearing talents. Santlow made a special contribution to the advance of dance at the London level, via her dancing roles in dance dramas by way of John Weaver and pantomimes via John Thurmond and Roger, in addition to the virtuoso dances created for her via Mr. Isaac and Anthony L'Abbé. Goff examines Santlow's attention-grabbing own existence, together with her relationships with the flesh presser James Craggs the more youthful and the Drury Lane actor-manager Barton sales space. Santlow was once strange in making the transition from winning dancer-actress to self sufficient and decent widow. Goff additionally lines her lifestyles after retirement as her daughter's kin rose from the gentry in the direction of the aristocracy. This ebook can be of curiosity to bop and theatre historians, to women's experiences students, and to all who're engaged with ongoing debates at the lives and careers of girls at the 17th- and eighteenth-century stage.

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