English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800

Leslie Ritchie author Heather Ladd author Leslie Ritchie editor Heather Ladd editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Delaware Press

Published:17th Jun '22

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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.

ISBN: 9781644532607

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 3g

298 pages