Rival queens : actresses, performance, and the eighteenth-century British theater /
In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their au...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2010]
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