Rival queens actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / Felicity Nussbaum.

Author/creator Nussbaum, Felicity
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
Description383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.
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LCCN 2009029041
ISBN9780812242331 (alk. paper)

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