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University of Pennsylvania Press
Language
English
Pages
383

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Subjects
Actresses, Women in the theater, History, Biography, Theater and society, Actors, great britain, Great britain, biography, Theater, great britain
Places
Great Britain
Times
18th century

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Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
Dec 11, 2013, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
2011, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
2011, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
792.02/8082094109033
Library of Congress
PN2582.W65 N87 2010, PN2582.W65N87 2010

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383 p. :
Number of pages
383

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OL24418914M
Internet Archive
rivalqueensactre0000nuss
ISBN 13
9780812242331
LCCN
2009029041
OCLC/WorldCat
427439491

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