English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-64453-261-4
Verlag: University of Delaware Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 1197 g

Reihe: Performing Celebrity

Explores the theatrical anecdote’s role inthe 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 theater scholarship today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ladd, Heather

Ritchie, Leslie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

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.