English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explores 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 anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. Chapters in this book discuss anecdotes about actors, actresses, musicians, and other theatre people.
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explores 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 anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. Chapters in this book discuss anecdotes about actors, actresses, musicians, and other theatre people.
HEATHER LADD is a former associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is the co-editor of this collection and has published on many eighteenth-century writers, including Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, John Gay, Thomas D’Urfey, and Elizabeth Craven. She is now located in Vancouver, British Columbia. LESLIE RITCHIE is a professor of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity and Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Social Harmony in Literature and Performance.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600–1800 Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie PART I ACTING BADLY: MISBEHAVING PERFORMERS 1 Killing Delane; or, Mimickry and the Anecdota obscura Leslie Ritchie 2 Violent Afterlives: The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater Biographies Máire Macneill 3 Samuel Foote, Esq.: Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical Anecdote Heather Ladd PART II ANECDOTAL BODIES 4 Pregnancy and the Late Stuart Stage, 1661–1702 Chelsea Phillips 5 “A High Treat to the Anecdote Hunters!”: The Body of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley Nevena Martinocvi¿ 6 A Bellyful of Nightingales: Seven Stories of Seven Singers Michael Burden PART III ACTING CAREERS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTE 7 Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several Anecdotes Fiona Ritchie 8 Neither Confirmed nor Refuted: The Anecdotal Elizabeth Barry Seth Wilson PART IV ANECDOTES’ AFTERLIVES: SCHOLARLY ENCOUNTERS 9 Anecdotal Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates’s Trip to Drury Lane Elaine Mcgirr 10 The Vanishing Subject in “Anecdotal” Abridgments of Theatrical Biographies Amanda Weldy Boyd 11 Queering Roxane from Davenant to Richardson Danielle Bobker Coda: Whither Theatrical Anecdote? Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Introduction: Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600–1800 Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie PART I ACTING BADLY: MISBEHAVING PERFORMERS 1 Killing Delane; or, Mimickry and the Anecdota obscura Leslie Ritchie 2 Violent Afterlives: The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater Biographies Máire Macneill 3 Samuel Foote, Esq.: Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical Anecdote Heather Ladd PART II ANECDOTAL BODIES 4 Pregnancy and the Late Stuart Stage, 1661–1702 Chelsea Phillips 5 “A High Treat to the Anecdote Hunters!”: The Body of Mrs. Sophia Baddeley Nevena Martinocvi¿ 6 A Bellyful of Nightingales: Seven Stories of Seven Singers Michael Burden PART III ACTING CAREERS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTE 7 Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several Anecdotes Fiona Ritchie 8 Neither Confirmed nor Refuted: The Anecdotal Elizabeth Barry Seth Wilson PART IV ANECDOTES’ AFTERLIVES: SCHOLARLY ENCOUNTERS 9 Anecdotal Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates’s Trip to Drury Lane Elaine Mcgirr 10 The Vanishing Subject in “Anecdotal” Abridgments of Theatrical Biographies Amanda Weldy Boyd 11 Queering Roxane from Davenant to Richardson Danielle Bobker Coda: Whither Theatrical Anecdote? Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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