Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / / Felicity Nussbaum.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 383 p. :; ill. |
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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.