Rival queens
Nussbaum, Felicity.
Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / [electronic resource] : Felicity Nussbaum. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010. - 383 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Women in the theater--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Theater and society--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Actresses--Great Britain--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN2582.W65 / N87 2010eb
792.02/8082094109033
Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / [electronic resource] : Felicity Nussbaum. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010. - 383 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Women in the theater--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Theater and society--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Actresses--Great Britain--Biography.
Electronic books.
PN2582.W65 / N87 2010eb
792.02/8082094109033