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English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800
"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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Main Author: | |
| Other Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Delaware Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Performing Celebrity Ser.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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 today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many applications beyond providing the expected comic punch. Discussing anecdotal narratives about theatre people as producing, maintaining, and sometimes toppling individual fame, this book crucially investigates a key mechanism of celebrity in the long eighteenth century that reaches into the nineteenth century and beyond. The anecdote erases boundaries between public and private and fictionalizes the individual in ways deeply familiar to twenty-first -century celebrity culture"-- |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (299 p.). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781644532638 1644532638 9781644532621 164453262X |