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The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920 - Brazen Impudence and Boisterous Vulgarity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Comedy and Legacy of Music-Hall Women 1880-1920 - Brazen Impudence and Boisterous Vulgarity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
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This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as
performers on the music-hall stage from 1880-1920, and examines the
significance of their previously overlooked contributions to
British comic traditions. Focusing on the under-researched female
'serio-comic', the study includes six micro-histories detailing the
acts of Ada Lundberg, Bessie Bellwood, Maidie Scott, Vesta
Victoria, Marie Lloyd and Nellie Wallace. Uniquely for women in the
late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, these pioneering
performers had public voices. The extent to which their comedy
challenged Victorian and Edwardian perceptions of women is revealed
through explorations of how they connected with popular audiences
while also avoiding censorship. Their use of techniques such as
comic irony and stereotyping, self-deprecation, and comic innuendo
are considered alongside the work of contemporary stand-up
comedians and performance artists including Bridget Christie,
Bryony Kimmings, Sara Pascoe, Shazia Mirza and Sarah Silverman.
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