Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater

✍ Scribed by Felicity Nussbaum

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 392
Category: Library

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In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their audiences, celebrated actresses were among the first women to achieve social mobility, cultural authority, and financial independence. In fact, Nussbaum contends, the eighteenth century might well be called the "age of the actress" in the British theater, given women's influence on the dramatic repertory and, through it, on the definition of femininity.Treating individual star actresses who helped spark a cult of celebrityespecially Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, Catherine Clive, Margaret Woffington, Frances Abington, and George Anne BellamyRival Queens reveals the way these women animated issues of national identity, property, patronage, and fashion in the c

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