Theatre and celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000
By: edited by Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody.
Contributors: Luckhurst, Mary.; Moody, Jane, 1967-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Actors -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Fame.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the languages of theatrical celebrity / Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody; title: Public intimacy : the prior history of "it" / Joseph Roach; title: Wilde : the remarkable rocket / Peter Raby; title: The many masks of Clemence Dane / Maggie B. Gale; title: Stolen identities : mimicry and the invention of Samuel Foote / Jane Moody; title: The celebrity of Edmund Kean : an institutional story / Jacky Bratton; title: Infamy and dying young : Sarah Kane, 1971-1999 / Mary Kuckhurst; title: Celebrity and rivalry David [Garrick] and Goliath [Quin] / Peter Thomson; title: Actresses and the economics of celebrity, 1700-1800 / Felicity Nussbaum; title: Private lives and public spaces : reputation, celebrity, and the late Victorian actress / Sos Eltis; title: Siddons, celebrity, and regality : portraiture and the body of the aging actress / Shearer West; title: "Some of you might have seen him" : Laurence Olivier's celebrity / Peter Holland