Rival queens
Subtitle: actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater
By: Felicity Nussbaum
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780812242331
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: at stage's edge; title: The economics of celebrity; title: Real, beautiful women: rival queens; title: Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue; title: Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract; title: The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive; title: The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington; title: The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington; title: Epilogue: contracted virtue.