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 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction: At Stage's Edge
- Chapter 1. The Economics of Celebrity
- Chapter 2. "Real, Beautiful Women": Rival Queens
- Chapter 3. Actresses' Memoirs: Exceptional Virtue
- Chapter 4. Actresses and Patrons: The Theatrical Contract
- Chapter 5. The Actress and Performative Property: Catherine Clive
- Chapter 6. The Actress, Travesty, and Nation: Margaret Woffington
- Chapter 7. The Actress and Material Femininity: Frances Abington
- Epilogue: Contracted Virtue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments