Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1660-2000
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Luckhurst & J.Moody PART I: PUBLIC INTIMACY Public History: The Prior History of 'It'; J.Roach Wilde: The Remarkable Rocket; P.Raby The Many Masks of Clemence Dane; M.B.Gale PART II: NOTORIETY Stolen Identities: Character, Mimicry and the Invention of Samuel Foote; J.Moody The Celebrity of Edmund Kean: An Institutional Story; J.Bratton Infamy and Dying Young: Sarah Kane, 1971-1999; M.Luckhurst PART III: MARKETS Celebrity and Rivalry: David Garrick] and Goliath Quin]; P.Thomson Actresses and the Economics of Celebrity, 1700-1800; F.Nussbaum Private Lives and Public Spaces: Reputation, Celebrity and the Late Victorian Actress; S.Eltis PART IIII: NATION Siddons, Celebrity and Regality: Portraiture and the Body of the Ageing Actress; S.West 'Some of you might have seen him': Laurence Olivier's Celebrity; P.Holland Index
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1403946825
ISBN13:9781403946829
Release Date:October 2005
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.97 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 8.2" x 8.8"
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