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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.

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Author

Heather Ladd, Leslie Ritchie, Máire MacNeill

Publisher

University of Delaware Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781644532621

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Sports