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Charlotte : Being A True Account Of An Actress’s Flamboyant Adventures In Eighteenth-century London’s Wild And Wicked Theatrical World

  • Charlotte : Being A True Account Of An Actress's Flamboyant Adventures In Eighteenth-century London's Wild And Wicked Theatrical World

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    Kathryn Shevelow

  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st ed, H. Holt, 2005

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PN2598.C28 S48 2005  AVAILABLE

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    The life of actress Charlotte Charke transports us through the splendors and scandals of eighteenth-century London and its wicked theatrical world Her father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth century’s great actor/playwrights-the toast of the British aristocracy, a favorite of the king. Kathryn Shevelow, an expert on the sophisticated world of eighteenth-century London (the setting for classics such as Tom Jones and Moll Flanders), re-creates Charlotte’s downfall from the heights of London’s theatrical world to its lascivious lows (the domain of fire-eaters, puppeteers, wastrels, gender-bending cross-dressers, wenches, and scandalous sorts of every variety) and her comeback as the author of one of the first autobiographies ever written by a woman. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Contents

    • Cibbers (1660-1712)
    • The impertinent intruder (1712-13)
    • A passionate fondness for a periwig (1717-20)
    • Educating Charlotte (1720-27)
    • Laureate (1720-30)
    • The provoked wife (1729-30)
    • Chambermaids and pretty ment (1731-32)
    • Show, show, show, show! (1732)
    • Stormy weather (1732-33)
    • Mutiny (1733)
    • Wearing the breeches (1733-34)
    • Mad company (1734-35)
    • Cordelia, or, The art of management (1735-36)
    • On the edge (1736)
    • Bad acts (1737)
    • Punch’s Theatre (1737-38)
    • Hard times (1738-41)
    • Down and out in London (1741-44)
    • A mind to get money (1742-46)
    • A little, dirty kind of war (1746- 53)
    • The female husband (1752-54)
    • The prodigal daughter (1755-56)
    • Curtain calls (1757-60)

  • ISBN

    • 0805073140

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