Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1797–1856) and Sara Lane (1822–99) were two pioneering women in nineteenth-century theatre history. Both were accomplished singers who made their names initially in comic and breeches roles and, during periods when theatrical management was almost exclusively confined to men, both ran successful theatre companies in London. Despite these parallels in their professional activities, there are substantial disparities in the scrutiny to which their personal lives were subjected and in how their contemporaries and posterity have memorialized them. In this article, Janice Norwood examines a range of portraits and cartoons of the two women, revealing how the images created and reflected the women's public identities, as well as recording changes in aesthetic practice and social attitudes. She argues that the women's iconology was fundamentally shaped by the contemporary discourse of gender difference. Janice Norwood is Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Drama, and Theatre Studies at the University of Hertfordshire. She has published on various aspects of nineteenth-century theatre history and edited a volume on Vestris for the Lives of Shakespearian Actors series (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011).

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描绘 19 世纪的女性剧院经理：伊丽莎·维斯特里斯和萨拉·莱恩的偶像学

Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1797–1856) 和 Sara Lane (1822–99) 是 19 世纪戏剧史上的两位先驱女性。两人都是多才多艺的歌手，最初以喜剧和马裤角色出名，在戏剧管理几乎完全限于男性的时期，两人都在伦敦经营着成功的剧院公司。尽管他们的职业活动有这些相似之处，但在他们的个人生活受到的审查以及他们的同时代人和后代如何纪念他们方面存在很大差异。在本文中，Janice Norwood 审视了这两位女性的一系列肖像和漫画，揭示了这些图像如何创造和反映女性的公共身份，以及记录审美实践和社会态度的变化。她认为女性的 他的肖像学从根本上受到当代性别差异话语的影响。Janice Norwood 是赫特福德大学的英国文学、戏剧和戏剧研究高级讲师。她发表了关于 19 世纪戏剧史的各个方面的文章，并为莎士比亚演员的生活系列（伦敦：皮克林和查托，2011 年）。