Staging memory and materiality in Eighteenth-Century theatrical biography /

Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Davies' 1780 memoir of David Garrick as the first moment of mastery in the genre's history, th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boyd, Amanda Weldy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2018.
Series:Anthem studies in theatre and performance.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Biography as a literary form.
Actors > Great Britain > Biography.
Theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Biographies as Topic
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Acteurs > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Théâtre > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
biographies (literary works)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Actors.
Theater.
Great Britain.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Colley Cibber's Complaint as Generic Demand
  • Theatrical Biography as a Legitimate Concern
  • Overview of Chapters
  • Postscript: Forestalling Objections about the Decidedly Masculine Face of the Biographer
  • 1. "Davies's Name ... in Fame's Brightest Page Shall on Garrick Attend": From Anonymous to Personalized Participation in the Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick
  • Johnson and Davies
  • The Earlier Biographies of Garrick
  • The Main Attraction: Davies's Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick (1780)
  • Editorial and Readerly Interventions
  • Davies as an Enduring Figure of Theatrical Biography
  • 2. His Work, My Words: Anxiety and Competition in the Posthumous Lives of Charles Macklin, Comedian
  • Establishing Expectations: The Biographer as Artist
  • Rising to the Biographical Occasion
  • First Fruits: Congreve's Authentic Memoirs of the Late Mr. Charles Macklin (1798)
  • Lines of Competition Embellished: Kirkman's Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin (1799)
  • An Impressionistic Memoir: Cooke's "Mew Species" of Biography (1804)
  • Macklin, Interrupted: Multiple Threats of Displacement
  • Extending the Memoirs of Charles Macklin; J.J. Cossart and the Act of Annotating
  • 3. Epistolary Resurrections: James Boaden and the Rise of the Professional Thespian Biographer
  • James Boaden as "Goodman Delver"
  • Professional Approaches: Privileging Aural/Textual and Documented Sources
  • Letters and Collected Personal Archives
  • Time's Effects: Boaden between Davies and Campbell
  • James and John Boaden, Father and Son, Clash over Sister Arts.

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