Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater /

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Huvudupphovsman: Nussbaum, Felicity
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Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: 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.