Rival Queens : : Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater / / Felicity Nussbaum.
In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their au...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 29 illus. |
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