Author : Heather Ladd,Leslie Ritchie
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532621
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 by Heather Ladd,Leslie Ritchie Pdf
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.
