Introducing Charlotte Charke : actress, author, enigma / edited by Philip E. Baruth ; afterword by Felicity A. Nussbaum.

Other author Baruth, Philip E. (Philip Edward)
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1998.
Descriptionviii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Charlotte Charke
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Philip Baruth -- Who is Charlotte Charke? / Philip Baruth -- Charlotte Charke and the Cibbers: private life as public spectacle / Jean Marsden -- The transgressive daughter and the masquerade of self-representation / Sidonie Smith -- The guilty pleasures of female theatrical cross-dressing and the autobiography of Charlotte Charke / Kristina Straub -- Charlotte Charke: images and afterimages / Robert Folkenflik -- Teaching Charlotte Charke: feminism, pedagogy, and the construction of the self / Madeleine Kahn -- "A masculine turn of mind": Charlotte Charke and the periodical press / Hans Turley -- Turning to men: genres of cross-dressing in Charke's narrative and Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice / Joseph Chaney -- Afterword: Charke's "variety of wretchedness" / Felicity A. Nussbaum.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98008907
ISBN025202415X (acid-free paper)
ISBN0252067231 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN2598.C28 I58 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold