Introducing Charlotte Charke
Subtitle: Actress, Author, Enigma
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: October 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780252067235
Subjects: Biography: general; Gay & Lesbian studies; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; England; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Theatre; Historical - British; Specific Groups - Lesbians; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gay Studies; Lesbian Studies; Women; 1713-1760; Charke, Charlotte,; Criticism and interpretation
First sentence: In his 1907 text on eighteenth-century actresses, Comedy Queens of the Georgian Era, John Fyvie begins the chapter on Charlotte Charke as follows: "Colley Cibber, poet-laureate, popular actor, sparkling dramatist, successful manager, and- by virtue of his Apology for his own life (which needed none)-author of the most entertaining book in all theatrical literature, was the father of twelve children..." (Fyvie 42).