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Electronic Book

Author

Nussbaum, Felicity.

Title Rival queens [electronic resource] : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater / Felicity Nussbaum.

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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	383 p. : ill.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-363) and index.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780812242331 (alk. paper)
	9780812206890 (electronic bk.)