Roles of authority
Subtitle: Thespian biography and celebrity in eighteenth-century Britain
By: Cheryl Wanko.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lubbock
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.; Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genres: Biography; Biography.
Description: "Of interest to historians of theater and popular culture alike, Roles of Authority shows the ways in which performers entered into discourses of authority during the eighteenth century. By engaging with traditional and contemporary learning, medical legitimacy, gender hierarchies, literary authority, paternalistic family structure, and financial power, writings about stage performers gained them cultural status and social acceptance."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-251) and index.