Cheryl Wanko.

Cheryl Wanko. parts of Authority: Thespian Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Lubbock Texas: Texas Tech University Pres 2003 Pp xii, 258 $3750 ISBN 0-89672-499-9

Cheryl Wanko asks to place the development of thespian biography, that is, biographies and autobiographies of actors and actresses, within the evolution of print civilization She associates, quite correctly it have the appearances to this reviewer, the flowering of this genre in the early eighteenth hundred with the increased availability of print media after the expiration of the Licensing Act in 1695

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