Introducing Charlotte Charke
Subtitle: actress, author, enigma
By: edited by Philip E. Baruth ; afterword by Felicity A. Nussbaum.
Contributors: Baruth, Philip E.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Charke, Charlotte, 1713-1760 -- Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Charlotte Charke
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction / Philip Baruth; title: Who is Charlotte Charke? / Philip Baruth; title: Charlotte Charke and the Cibbers: private life as public spectacle / Jean Marsden; title: The transgressive daughter and the masquerade of self-representation / Sidonie Smith; title: The guilty pleasures of female theatrical cross-dressing and the autobiography of Charlotte Charke / Kristina Straub; title: Charlotte Charke: images and afterimages / Robert Folkenflik; title: Teaching Charlotte Charke: feminism, pedagogy, and the construction of the self / Madeleine Kahn; title: "A masculine turn of mind": Charlotte Charke and the periodical press / Hans Turley; title: Turning to men: genres of cross-dressing in Charke's narrative and Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice / Joseph Chaney; title: Afterword: Charke's "variety of wretchedness" / Felicity A. Nussbaum.