Roles of authority: Thespian biography and celebrity in eighteenth-century Britain
"Of interest to historians of theater and popular culture alike, Roles of Authority shows the ways in which performers entered into discourses of authority during the eighteenth century. By engaging with traditional and contemporary learning, medical legitimacy, gender hierarchies, literary aut...
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| Summary: | "Of interest to historians of theater and popular culture alike, Roles of Authority shows the ways in which performers entered into discourses of authority during the eighteenth century. By engaging with traditional and contemporary learning, medical legitimacy, gender hierarchies, literary authority, paternalistic family structure, and financial power, writings about stage performers gained them cultural status and social acceptance."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-251) and index |
| Physical Description: | ix, 258 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 0896724999 |
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CHERYL WANKO
TEXAS TECH
UNIVERSITY
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xi
Introduction 1
1 * Rogues and Gentlemen: The
Ancients and Moderns
Take the Stage 22
The Rogues and the Moderns: Matthew
Coppinger and Joseph Hayns 26
The Gentlemen and the Ancients:
Thomas Betterton 38
Conclusion: Containing the
Contradictory Actor 49
2 tf Three Stories of Celebrity: The
Beggar s Opera Biographies 51
The Actress as Gold Digger: The Life of
Lavinia Beswick, Alias Fenton,
Alias Polly Peachum 56
The Lure of Celebrity: Memoirs
concerning the Life and Manners of
Captain Mackheath 62
CONTENTS
The Rogue Revisited: The Life of Mr James Spiller, the Late
Famous Comedian 65
Conclusion: The Influence o/The Beggar s Opera Biographies 69
viii
3 * The Eighteenth-Century Actress and the Construction of Gender:
Lavinia Fenton and Charlotte Charke 71
The View from the Pit: The Life of Lavinia Fenton 74
The View from the Stage: A Narrative of the Life of
Mrs Charlotte Charke 79
Conclusion: The Textual and Actual Actress 87
4 * Dissecting the Actor s Authority: Barton Booth s Final Act 90
The Source of The Case of Mr Booth 92
Booth s Body in Biography 100
Conclusion: Actors and Quacks 106
5 * Actor v Author: Colley Cibber s Challenge to Literary Authority 110
Cibber and Control of the Stage and Text 113
Cibber, Authorship, and Print Controversy 120
Conclusion: Cibber and Theater History 133
6 * Inherited Authority? In the Shadow of Colley Cibber 136
Theophilus Cibber and His Anxiety of Influence 138
Fictional Dependency: The Uses of Novels 146
Conclusion: Beyond Cibber 158
7 * Parable of the Talent(s): The Economics of Acting Authority 161
The Value of Players 165
Profligacy, Generosity, and Greed 172
Gender and Currency 179
Conclusion: Purchasing Value 184
CONTENTS
8 * The Authority of the Celebrity: David Garrick 187
The Theatrical Life: Thomas Davies s Memoirs of the
Life of David Garrick 191
The Literary Life: Arthur Murphy s The Life of David Garrick 201 ix
Conclusion: Garrick, Biography, and Celebrity 208
Conclusion 214
Notes 223
Index 253
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