English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 /

English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 / / 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 collecti...

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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]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Performing Celebrity
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Physical Description:1 online resource (250 p.) :; 6 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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