Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (645 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252067231 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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What a life! A Customer Charlotte Charke led an amazing life in eighteenth-century England. Often in debt, cast out by much of her comfortably-off family, partly for her habit of wearing men's clothes, she tried her hand at inn keeping, pie making, doctoring, waiting at table, gentleman's gentleman, and most successfully (tho that's not saying much) as a strolling player. Her words tumble out just like someone speaking, she doesn't always stick to the point but she brings her times and surroundings
Baruth. The notorious troublemaker Charlotte Charke worked as a novelist, autobiographer, and strolling actress. Charles Brown, she lived openly with another woman for nearly a decade.Charke, daughter of Colley Cibber, the English playwright and poet laureate (1740), lived a life of masquerade. Felicity A. Known as Mr. Nussbaum provides a thought-provoking afterword on the current state of Charke criticism.. But it was as a cross-dresser -- both on stage and off -- that she scandalized eighteenth-century England. Other contributors to this collection look at Charke, her famous family, and her place within stage and cross-dressing traditions. Her autobiography is a fascinating document of low- and middle-class life in the 1700s and is explored in some detail by Philip E