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Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater
- Title
- Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / Felicity Nussbaum.
- Author
- Nussbaum, Felicity.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- 383 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- NCOM 10-4065
- ISBN
- 9780812242331 (alk. paper)
- 0812242335 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009029041
- OCLC
- YBP 2009029041
- Author
- Nussbaum, Felicity.
- Title
- Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / Felicity Nussbaum.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- NCOM 10-4065