Rival Queens : Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nussbaum, Felicity
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Actresses > Great Britain > Biography.
Theater and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Women in the theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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