Rival queens [electronic resource] : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / Felicity Nussbaum.
Nussbaum, Felicity.
2010
PN2582.W65 N87 2010eb
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Title
Rival queens [electronic resource] : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / Felicity Nussbaum.
Author
Nussbaum, Felicity.
ISBN
9780812242331 (alk. paper)
9780812206890 (e-book)
Publication Details
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
383 p. : ill.
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PN2582.W65 N87 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.02/8082094109033
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.
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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.

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