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

Main Author: Nussbaum, Felicity.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
Subjects:
Women in the theater > History > 18th century. > Great Britain
Theater and society > History > 18th century. > Great Britain
Actresses > Great Britain
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10642216
Table of 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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