 | Rival Queens: Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater Subjects: Women in the theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Theater and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Actresses -- Great Britain -- Biography; Historians of British theater have often noted that the eighteenth century was an age not of the author but of the actor. In Rival Queens , Felicity Nussbaum argues that the period might more accurately be seen as the age of women in the theater, and more particularly as the age of the actress. Felicity Nussbaum is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of numerous books, including The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century. |
