caa a22 4500 386362610 CHVBK 20180307111921.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266464X0000364X doi S0266464X0000364X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266464X0000364X Davis Tracy C. The Spectacle of Absent Costume: Nudity on the Victorian Stage [Elektronische Daten] [Tracy C. Davis] The recent revaluation and exploration of ninetenth-century theatre has gone almost in parallel with the development of contemporary feminist criticism: yet the one approach has all too rarely meshed with the other. Here, Tracy C. Davis attempts a feminist critique of that distinctively Victorian phenomenon, the display of naked and near-naked female flesh in the theatre - at a time when even the legs of pianos were discreetly veiled in respectable drawing-rooms. She questions how the conventions of stage costume were able to defy conventional proprieties, how that defiance ‘served the heterosexual male hegemonic aesthetic', and how it related to ways of ‘seeing' nudity during the nineteenth century. Presently teaching in the Drama Department of the University of Calgary, Tracy C. Davis has contributed widely to theatrical journals, and her study of ‘The Employment of Children in the Victorian Theatre' was included in NTQ6 (1986). Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 5/20(1989-11), 321-333 0266-464X 5:20<321 1989 5 NTQ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X0000364X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266464X0000364X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Davis Tracy C. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Theatre Quarterly Cambridge University Press 5/20(1989-11), 321-333 0266-464X 5:20<321 1989 5 NTQ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge