Rival queens [electronic resource] : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / Felicity Nussbaum.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.Description: 383 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 792.02/8082094109033 22
LOC classification:
  • PN2582.W65 N87 2010eb
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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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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.

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