Chelsea Phillips

Carrying All before Her

Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses the reproductive histories of six celebrity women to demonstrate that pregnancy affected celebrity identity, impacted audience reception of performance, changed company repertory and altered company hierarchy, influenced the development of new plays, and had economic consequences for both women and the companies for which they worked.

Produktdetails

• Performing Celebrity
• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 250mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781644532485
• ISBN-10: 1644532484
• Artikelnr.: 61509181

Autorenporträt

CHELSEA PHILLIPS is an associate professor of theatre at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. 

Inhaltsangabe

Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Inheriting Greatness: Susanna Mountfort Verbruggen and Anne Oldfield
2 Pregnant Sensibility: Susannah Cibber and George Anne Bellamy
3 Conceiving Genius: Sarah Siddons
4 Prolific Muse: Dorothy Jordan
Conclusion: Celebrity Pregnancy, Then and Now
Appendix: Birth and Christening Dates
Notes
Bibliography
Index