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OverviewThe 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Heather Ladd , Leslie Ritchie , Leslie Ritchie , Máire MacNeillPublisher: University of Delaware Press Imprint: University of Delaware Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.003kg ISBN: 9781644532607ISBN 10: 1644532603 Pages: 298 Publication Date: 17 June 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600–1800 Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie PART I ACTING BADLY: MISBEHAVING PERFORMERS 1 Killing Delane; or, Mimickry and the Anecdota obscura Leslie Ritchie 2 Violent Afterlives: The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater Biographies Máire Macneill 3 Samuel Foote, Esq.: Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical Anecdote Heather Ladd PART II ANECDOTAL BODIES 4 Pregnancy and the Late Stuart Stage, 1661–1702 Chelsea Phillips 5 “A High Treat to the Anecdote Hunters!”: The Body of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley Nevena Martinocvić 6 A Bellyful of Nightingales: Seven Stories of Seven Singers Michael Burden PART III ACTING CAREERS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTE 7 Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several Anecdotes Fiona Ritchie 8 Neither Confirmed nor Refuted: The Anecdotal Elizabeth Barry Seth Wilson PART IV ANECDOTES’ AFTERLIVES: SCHOLARLY ENCOUNTERS 9 Anecdotal Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates’s Trip to Drury Lane Elaine Mcgirr 10 The Vanishing Subject in “Anecdotal” Abridgments of Theatrical Biographies Amanda Weldy Boyd 11 Queering Roxane from Davenant to Richardson Danielle Bobker Coda: Whither Theatrical Anecdote? Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie Bibliography Notes on Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationHEATHER 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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