Screen LibraryRival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century british theater /
Historians of British theater have often noted that the eighteenth century was an age not of the author but of the actor. In Rival Queens, Felicity Nussbaum argues that the period might more accurately be seen as the age of women in the theater, and more particularly as the age of the actress.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812206890 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812206890.jpg |
| Summary: |
Historians of British theater have often noted that the eighteenth century was an age not of the author but of the actor. In Rival Queens, Felicity Nussbaum argues that the period might more accurately be seen as the age of women in the theater, and more particularly as the age of the actress. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (392 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | 29 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812206890 |
| Index Number: | PN2582 |
| CLC: | J809.561 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: At Stage s Edge -- Chapter 1. The Economics of Celebrity -- Chapter 2. "Real, Beautiful Women": Rival Queens -- Chapter 3. Actresses Memoirs: Exceptional Virtue -- Chapter 4. Actresses and Patrons: The Theatrical Contract -- Chapter 5. The Actress and Performative Property: Catherine Clive -- Chapter 6. The Actress, Travesty, and Nation: Margaret Woffington -- Chapter 7. The Actress and Material Femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: Contracted Virtue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |