• Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater
    [NT 47261] Author: NussbaumFelicity,
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Philadelphia
    [NT 47263] Published: University of Pennsylvania Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: c2010
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (383 p.)ill. :
    [NT 47266] Subject: Actresses - Biography - Great Britain -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Theater and society - History - Great Britain - 18th century -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Women in the theater - History - Great Britain - 18th century -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780812206890/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780812206890electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780812242331hbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: Introduction: at stage's edge -- The economics of celebrity -- Real,beautiful women: rival queens -- Actresses' memoirs: exceptional virtue -- Actresses and patrons: the theatrical contract -- The actress and performative property: Catherine Clive -- The actress, travesty, and nation: Margaret Woffington -- The actress and material femininity: Frances Abington -- Epilogue: contracted virtue
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