Theatre and celebrity in Britain 1660-2000 [Elektronisk resurs] / Edited by Mary Luckhurst, Jane Moody.

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction-- M.Luckhurst & J.Moody PART I: PUBLIC INTIMACY Public History: The Prior History of 'It'-- J.Roach Wilde: The Remarkable Rocket-- P.Raby The Many Masks of Clemence Dane-- M.B.Gale PART II: NOTORIETY Stolen Identities: Character, Mimicry and the Invention of Samuel Foote-- J.Moody The Celebrity of Edmund Kean: An Institutional Story-- J.Bratton Infamy and Dying Young: Sarah Kane, 1971-1999-- M.Luckhurst PART III: MARKETS Celebrity and Rivalry: David [Garrick] and Goliath [Quin]-- P.Thomson Actresses and the Economics of Celebrity, 1700-1800-- F.Nussbaum Private Lives and Public Spaces: Reputation, Celebrity and the Late Victorian Actress-- S.Eltis PART IIII: NATION Siddons, Celebrity and Regality: Portraiture and the Body of the Ageing Actress-- S.West 'Some of you might have seen him': Laurence Olivier's Celebrity-- P.Holland Index.

• Theatre has always been a site for selling outrage and sensation, a place where public reputations are made and destroyed in spectacular ways. This is the first book to investigate the construction and production of celebrity in the British theatre. These original and exciting essays explore aspects of fame in a wide range of performers and playwrights including David Garrick, Ellen Terry, Oscar Wilde, Edmund Kean, Laurence Olivier and Sarah Kane. Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000 is a pioneering volume which sets out to examine the ingenious ways in which stars have negotiated and defined their own fame. Organized around the themes of public intimacy, notoriety, markets and the nation, the essays in this innovative and wide-ranging collection reveal the critical position of celebrity in the history of British theatre. 
• 'There is not a weak link in the book. A compelling setof case studies intriguingly sets out much that nuances understanding of the kinds of figures who exert more attention now than perhaps ever before.' - Modernism/Modernity 'A fascinating collection of essays that invites us to compare theatrical personalities of different ages, and wonder what makes these people, of all those who are professionally involved in the creation of fictional personae for public consumption, special.' - Times Literary Supplement 'The essays collected here...make a valuable contribution to understanding the history of a phenomenon that, while it has only recently started to receive serious attention, has clearly been with us for some time.' Tom Mole, Theatre Notebook. 

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Literary studies: plays & playwrights.  (bicssc)

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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.  (bicssc)

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.  (bicssc)

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