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.