Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater

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Auteur principal : Nussbaum Felicity A. (Auteur)
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.)
Sujets :
  • 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