CHARLOTTE: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World
Kathryn Shevelow, . . Holt, $27.50 (433pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-7314-0
Shevelow entertainingly raises the curtain on author-actress Charlotte Cibber Charke (1713–1760), a cross-dresser famed for her portrayal of male characters. The author, a specialist in 18th-century British literature and culture, offers a full-scale biography of this enigmatic eccentric, who also wrote plays and novels (including
Reviewed on: 03/07/2005
Genre: Nonfiction
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