An edition of Rival queens (2010)

Rival queens

actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater

Rival queens
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An edition of Rival queens (2010)

Rival queens

actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater

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Rival queens: actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater
2010, 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 and index.

Published in
Philadelphia
Genre
Biography

Classifications

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

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23622587M
ISBN 13
9780812242331
LCCN
2009029041
OCLC/WorldCat
427439491

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Work ID
OL3753568W

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