English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 / / ed. by Leslie Ritchie, Heather Ladd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Bobker, Danielle,; Boyd, Amanda Weldy,; Burden, Michael,; Ladd, Heather,; MacNeill, Máire,; Macneill, Máire,; Martinovic, Nevena,; Martinović, Nevena,; McGirr, Elaine,; Mcgirr, Elaine,; Phillips, Chelsea,; Ritchie, Fiona,; Ritchie, Leslie,; Weldy Boyd, Amanda,; Wilson, Seth,
• HerausgeberIn: Ladd, Heather,; Ritchie, Leslie,
• Place / Publishing House: Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Performing Celebrity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600–1800 --; PART I ACTING BADLY Misbehaving Performers --; 1 KILLING DELANE; OR, MIMICKRY AND THE ANECDOTA OBSCURA --; 2 VIOLENT AFTERLIVES The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater Biographies --; 3 SAMUEL FOOTE, ESQ. Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical Anecdote --; PART II ANECDOTAL BODIES --; 4 PREGNANCY AND THE LATE STUART STAGE, 1661–1702 --; 5 “A HIGH TREAT TO THE ANECDOTE HUNTERS!” The Body of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley --; 6 A BELLYFUL OF NIGHTINGALES Seven Stories of Seven Singers --; PART III ACTING CAREERS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTE --; 7 ANECDOTE AND THE REGIONAL ACTRESS A History of the Farren Family in Several Anecdotes --; 8 NEITHER CONFIRMED NOR REFUTED The Anecdotal Elizabeth Barry --; PART IV ANECDOTES’ AFTERLIVES Scholarly Encounters --; 9 ANECDOTAL ORIGIN STORIES Mary Ann Yates’s Trip to Drury Lane --; 10 THE VANISHING SUBJECT IN “ANECDOTAL” ABRIDGMENTS OF THEATRICAL BIOGRAPHIES --; 11 QUEERING ROXANE FROM DAVENANT TO RICHARDSON --; CODA Whither Theatrical Anecdote? --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644532638; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783110766479
• DOI: 10.36019/9781644532638?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Leslie Ritchie, Heather Ladd.

The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and applications beyond the expected comic punch. Discussing anecdotal narratives about theatre people as producing, maintaining, and sometimes toppling individual fame, this book crucially investigates a key mechanism of celebrity in the long eighteenth century that reaches into the nineteenth century and beyond. The anecdote erases boundaries between public and private and fictionalizing the individual in ways deeply familiar to twenty-first century celebrity culture.