Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater - Nussbaum, Felicity; ebrary, Inc. (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography; Electronic books