English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 by Heather Ladd, Lesl... - 9781644532607

English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800Author(s): Heather Ladd, Leslie Ritchie, Leslie Ritchie, Mire MacNeill, Heather Ladd, Chelsea Phillips, Nevena Martinovic, Michael Burden, Fiona Ritchie, Seth Wilson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Delaware Press, United States\nImprint: University of Delaware Press\nISBN-13: 9781644532607, 978-1644532607\nSynopsis\nThe essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, [tel] explore the theatrical anecdotes role in the construction of stage fame in Englands 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.