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

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Description for Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater Paperback. Historians of British theater have often noted that the eighteenth century was an age not of the author but of the actor. In Rival Queens, Felicity Nussbaum argues that the period might more accurately be seen as the age of women in the theater, and more particularly as the age of the actress. Num Pages: 392 pages, 29 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; ANB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812223019
SKU
V9780812223019
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About Felicity Nussbaum
Felicity Nussbaum is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous books, including The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Reviews for Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
"Excellent."
TLS
"[Rival Queens] has vital ramifications not only for a renewed study of the eighteenth-century theater but also for our understandings of the performance of gender and, specifically, femininity across the period."
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
"A pleasure to read, with a deft balance of anecdote and theory, statistical data and narrative. Nussbaum, an ... Read more

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