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.