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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12877133.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-251) and index.".
- catalog description "Rogues and gentlemen: the ancients and moderns take the stage -- Three stories of celebrity: the Beggar's Opera "biographies" -- The eighteenth-century actress and the construction of gender: Lavinia Fenton and Charlotte Charke -- Dissecting the actor's authority: Barton Booth's final act -- Actor v. author: Colley Cibber's challenge to literary authority -- Inherited authority? in the shadow of Coley Cibber -- Parable of the talent(s): the economics of acting authority -- The authority of the celebrity: David Garrick.".
- catalog extent "ix, 258 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0896724999 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "792/.092/241 B 21".
- catalog subject "Actors Great Britain Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Actors Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "PN2593 .W36 2003".
- catalog subject "Theater Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Rogues and gentlemen: the ancients and moderns take the stage -- Three stories of celebrity: the Beggar's Opera "biographies" -- The eighteenth-century actress and the construction of gender: Lavinia Fenton and Charlotte Charke -- Dissecting the actor's authority: Barton Booth's final act -- Actor v. author: Colley Cibber's challenge to literary authority -- Inherited authority? in the shadow of Coley Cibber -- Parable of the talent(s): the economics of acting authority -- The authority of the celebrity: David Garrick.".
- catalog title "Roles of authority : thespian biography and celebrity in eighteenth-century Britain / Cheryl Wanko.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".