Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / Felicity Nussbaum.
Published / Created:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- "Real, beautiful women": rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue.
Subject Terms:
Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography.