Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater /
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Materialtyp: | Elektronisk E-bok |
Språk: | engelska |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2010.
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Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.