English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800

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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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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-17
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt313 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePerforming Celebrity
Antal sidor298
FörlagUniversity of Delaware Press
ISBN9781644532607

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HEATHER LADD is a former associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is the co-editor of this collection and has published on many eighteenth-century writers, including Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, John Gay, Thomas D’Urfey, and Elizabeth Craven. She is now located in Vancouver, British Columbia.LESLIE RITCHIE is a professor of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity and Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Social Harmony in Literature and Performance.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600–1800Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchiePART IACTING BADLY: MISBEHAVING PERFORMERS1 Killing Delane; or, Mimickry and the Anecdota obscuraLeslie Ritchie2 Violent Afterlives: The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater BiographiesMÁire Macneill3 Samuel Foote, Esq.: Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical AnecdoteHeather LaddPART IIANECDOTAL BODIES4 Pregnancy and the Late Stuart Stage, 1661–1702Chelsea Phillips5 “A High Treat to the Anecdote Hunters!”: The Body of Mrs. Sophia BaddeleyNevena Martinocvić6 A Bellyful of Nightingales: Seven Stories of Seven SingersMichael BurdenPART IIIACTING CAREERS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTE7 Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several AnecdotesFiona Ritchie8 Neither Confirmed nor Refuted: The Anecdotal Elizabeth BarrySeth WilsonPART IVANECDOTES’ AFTERLIVES: SCHOLARLY ENCOUNTERS9 Anecdotal Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates’s Trip to Drury LaneElaine Mcgirr10 The Vanishing Subject in “Anecdotal” Abridgments of Theatrical BiographiesAmanda Weldy Boyd11 Queering Roxane from Davenant to RichardsonDanielle BobkerCoda: Whither Theatrical Anecdote?Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchieBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex