Nussbaum, Felicity.

Rival Queens Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater / [Recurso electrónico] : Felicity Nussbaum. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (383 p. :) ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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

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.

Libro Electrónico

9780812206890




Actresses--Great Britain--Biography.
Theater and society--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Women in the theater--History--Great Britain--18th century.


Electronic books.

PN2582.W65 / N87 2010

792.02/8082094109033