English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800

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"The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote's role in the construction of stage fame in England's emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship toda...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ladd, Heather
Otros Autores: Ritchie, Leslie, MacNeill, Máire, Phillips, Chelsea, Martinovic, Nevena, Burden, Michael, Ritchie, Fiona, Wilson, Seth, McGirr, Elaine, Boyd, Amanda Weldy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Delaware Press, 2022.
Colección:Performing Celebrity Ser.
Temas:
1700-1799
Theater > England > History > 18th century.
Fame > Social aspects > England > History > 18th century.
Theater > England > Anecdotes.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Théâtre > Angleterre > Anecdotes.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Theater
Fame > Social aspects
England
essays.
History
Essays
Anecdotes
Essays.
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Series Editor
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600-1800 / Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie
  • Part I. Acting Badly: Misbehaving Performers
  • 1. Killing Delane
  • or, Mimickry and the Anecdota obscura / Leslie Ritchie
  • 2. Violent Afterlives: The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater Biographies / Máire Macneill
  • 3. Samuel Foote, Esq.: Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical Anecdote / Heather Ladd
  • Part II. Anecdotal Bodies
  • 4. Pregnancy and the Late Stuart Stage, 1661-1702 / Chelsea Phillips
  • 5. "A High Treat to the Anecdote Hunters!": The Body of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley / Nevena Martinović
  • 6. A Bellyful of Nightingales: Seven Stories of Seven Singers / Michael Burden
  • Part III. Acting Careers And The Professional Anecdote
  • 7. Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several Anecdotes / Fiona Ritchie
  • 8. Neither Confirmed nor Refuted: The Anecdotal Elizabeth Barry / Seth Wilson
  • Part IV. Anecdotes' Afterlives: Scholarly Encounters
  • 9. Anecdotal Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates's Trip to Drury Lane / Elaine McGirr
  • 10. The Vanishing Subject in "Anecdotal" Abridgments of Theatrical Biographies / Amanda Weldy Boyd
  • 11. Queering Roxane from Davenant to Richardson / Danielle Bobker
  • Coda: Whither Theatrical Anecdote? / Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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