Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater
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Format : | Livre |
Langue : | anglais |
Titre complet : | Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / Felicity Nussbaum |
Publié : |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
, cop. 2010 |
Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (383 p.) |
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- P. 1
- Introduction: at stage's edge
- P. 31
- The economics of celebrity
- P. 61
- "Real, beautiful women": rival queens
- P. 92
- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue
- P. 122
- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract
- P. 151
- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive
- P. 189
- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington
- P. 226
- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington
- P. 265
- Epilogue: contracted virtue