UID:
almahu_9947928303702882
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 209 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781783086672 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Anthem studies in theatre and performance
Content:
“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Davies’ 1780 memoir of David Garrick as the first moment of mastery in the genre’s history, the three-way war for the right to tell Charles Macklin’s story at the turn of the century and James Boaden’s theatrical biography spree in the 1820s and 1830s, including the lives of John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Dorothy Jordan and Elizabeth Inchbald. This project investigates the extent to which biographers envisioned themselves as artists, inheriting the anxiety of impermanence and correlating fear of competition that plagued their thespian subjects. It traces a suggestive, but not determinative, outline of generic development, noting the shifting generic features that emerge in context of a given work’s predecessors. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked’’ editions of the biographies, this text is invested in the ways that the increasing emphasis on materiality was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority. This turn to materiality also authorized readerly participation, allowing the form of extra-illustrated or “co-author” biographies through the use of material insertions, asserting their own presence in the texts about beloved thespians.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Jun 2018).
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Machine generated contents note: Colley Cibber's Complaint as Generic Demand --
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Theatrical Biography as a Legitimate Concern --
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Overview of Chapters --
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Postscript: Forestalling Objections about the Decidedly Masculine Face of the Biographer --
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"Davies's Name [...] in Fame's Brightest Page Shall on Garrick Attend": From Anonymous to Personalized Participation in the Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick --
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Johnson and Davies --
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The Earlier Biographies of Garrick --
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The Main Attraction: Davies's Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick (1780) --
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Editorial and Readerly Interventions --
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Davies as an Enduring Figure of Theatrical Biography --
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His Work, My Words: Anxiety and Competition in the Posthumous Lives of Charles Macklin, Comedian --
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Establishing Expectations: The Biographer as Artist --
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Rising to the Biographical Occasion --
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First Fruits: Congreve's Authentic Memoirs of the Late Mr. Charles Macklin (1798) --
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Lines of Competition Embellished: Kirkman's Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin (1799) --
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An Impressionistic Memoir: Cooke's "Mew Species" of Biography (1804) --
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Macklin, Interrupted: Multiple Threats of Displacement --
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Extending the Memoirs of Charles Macklin; J. J. Cossart and the Act of Annotating --
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Epistolary Resurrections: James Boaden and the Rise of the Professional Thespian Biographer --
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James Boaden as "Goodman Delver" --
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Professional Approaches: Privileging Aural/Textual and Documented Sources --
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Letters and Collected Personal Archives --
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Time's Effects: Boaden between Davies and Campbell --
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James and John Boaden, Father and Son, Clash over Sister Arts.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781783086665
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781783086672/type/BOOK
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