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Author Nussbaum, Felicity A., 1944-
Title Rival queens [electronic resource] : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / Felicity Nussbaum.
Publication Info Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)



Descript 1 online resource (383 p. :) ill.
Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780812206890 (e-book)
0812206894 (e-book)
9780812242331
0812242335
9780812242331
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Author Nussbaum, Felicity A., 1944-
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Alt author Project Muse.
Descript 1 online resource (383 p. :) ill.
Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780812206890 (e-book)
0812206894 (e-book)
9780812242331
0812242335
9780812242331
Author Nussbaum, Felicity A., 1944-
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Alt author Project Muse.

Subject Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Descript 1 online resource (383 p. :) ill.
Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Project Muse.
ISBN 9780812206890 (e-book)
0812206894 (e-book)
9780812242331
0812242335
9780812242331

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