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
ISBN-13: 9780812242331
Subjects: Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references 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.