{"product_id":"rival-queens-9780812223019","title":"Rival Queens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorians of British theater have often noted that the eighteenth century was an age not of the author but of the actor. In Rival Queens, Felicity Nussbaum argues that the period might more accurately be seen as the age of women in the theater, and more particularly as the age of the actress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent.\" * \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eRival Queens\u003c\/i\u003e] has vital ramifications not only for a renewed study of the eighteenth-century theater but also for our understandings of the performance of gender and, specifically, femininity across the period.\" * \u003ci\u003eStudies in English Literature 1500-1900\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"A pleasure to read, with a deft balance of anecdote and theory, statistical data and narrative. Nussbaum, an acknowledged expert on gender and literature in the long eighteenth century, demonstrates her facility with eighteenth-century theater as well. The book will certainly appeal to feminists, theater historians, and scholars looking for nuanced histories of acting.\" * \u003ci\u003eTheater Survey\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Skillfully interweaving analysis of a breadth of biographical source materials with literary analysis of plays and understandings of the economic context in which these women worked, the author offers a compelling argument for the ways in which theatrical economics disrupted simple stagings of femininity.\" * \u003ci\u003eTheater Research International\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: At Stage's Edge\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The Economics of Celebrity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"Real, Beautiful Women\": Rival Queens\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Actresses' Memoirs: Exceptional Virtue\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Actresses and Patrons: The Theatrical Contract\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Actress and Performative Property: Catherine Clive\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Actress, Travesty, and Nation: Margaret Woffington\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Actress and Material Femininity: Frances Abington\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Contracted Virtue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405702177111,"sku":"9780812223019","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812223019.jpg?v=1730493333","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rival-queens-9780812223019","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}