Auto/biography and identity

<p>This groundbreaking book shows how female performers - one of the first groups of professional women - used and still use autobiography and performance as both a means of expression and control of their private and public selves the 'face and the mask'. It looks at how a range of women in the theatre - actors managers writers and live artists - have done this on the page and on the stage from the late eighteenth-century to the present day testing the boundaries between gender theatre and autobiographical form. <br><br>This paperback edition facilitates connections - between texts and performances past and present practitioners professional and private selves individuals and communities all of which have in some way renegotiated identity through autobiography and the creative act.<br>'Auto/biography and identity' is a landmark in theatre history and performance analysis in gender and cultural theory and autobiographical studies.</p>