English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 (Performing Celebrity)

By: Leslie Ritchie and Máire MacNeill and Heather Ladd and Chelsea Phillips and Nevena Martinovic and Michael Burden and Fiona Ritchie and Seth Wilson and Elaine McGirr and Amanda Weldy Boyd and Danielle Bobker

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781644532621
Related ISBNs:: 9781644532614, 9781644532607
Publisher:: University of Delaware Press
Date of Addition:: 07/07/22
Copyrighted By:: the University of Delaware
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Drama, Plays and Theater, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Heather Ladd
Edited by:: Leslie Ritchie