English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 Hardback
Edited by Heather Ladd, Leslie Ritchie
Part of the Performing Celebrity series
Hardback
Description
The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today.
This collection showcases scholarship that complicates the theatrical anecdote and shows its many sides and applications beyond the expected comic punch.
Discussing anecdotal narratives about theatre people as producing, maintaining, and sometimes toppling individual fame, this book crucially investigates a key mechanism of celebrity in the long eighteenth century that reaches into the nineteenth century and beyond.
The anecdote erases boundaries between public and private and fictionalizing the individual in ways deeply familiar to twenty-first century celebrity culture.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:298 pages, 6 b&w illustrations
- Publisher:University of Delaware Press
- Publication Date:17/06/2022
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- ISBN:9781644532614
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:298 pages, 6 b&w illustrations
- Publisher:University of Delaware Press
- Publication Date:17/06/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781644532614