English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 (eBook)

Ladd Heather Ladd, Ritchie Leslie Ritchie (Herausgeber)

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2022
250 Seiten
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
978-1-64453-263-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.6.2022
• Co-Autor: Boyd Amanda Weldy Boyd, Martinovic Nevena Martinovic, Wilson Seth Wilson, Phillips Chelsea Phillips, Bobker Danielle Bobker, McGirr Elaine McGirr, Ritchie Fiona Ritchie, Ladd Heather Ladd, Ritchie Leslie Ritchie, MacNeill Maire MacNeill, Burden Michael Burden
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-64453-263-8 / 1644532638
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64453-263-8 / 9781644532638