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| Named Person: | Charlotte Charke |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathryn Shevelow |
| ISBN: | 0805073140 9780805073140 |
| OCLC Number: | 56799033 |
| Description: | xii, 433 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| 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). |
| Responsibility: | Kathryn Shevelow. |
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Abstract:
The life of actress Charlotte Charke transports us through the splendors and scandals of eighteenth-century London and its wicked theatrical world. Her father was one of the century's great actor/playwrights, a favorite of the king. It was thought that his high-spirited, often rebellious daughter Charlotte would follow in his footsteps at the legendary Drury Lane--but this was not to be. She had the troublesome habit of dressing in men's clothes--a preference first revealed onstage but adopted elsewhere after her disastrous marriage to an actor, who became the last man she ever loved. Author Shevelow, an expert on eighteenth-century London, 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.--From publisher description.
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