Introduction : the singularity of theatrical celebrity / Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody -- Public intimacy : the prior history of "it" / Joseph Roach -- Wilde : the remarkable rocket / Peter Raby -- The many masks of Clemence Dane / Maggie B. Gale -- Stolen identities : character, mimicry and the invention of Samuel Foote / Jane Moody -- The celebrity of Edmund Kean : an institutional story / Jacky Bratton -- Infamy and dying young : Sarah Kane, 1971-1999 / Mary Luckhurst -- Celebrity and rivalry: David [Garrick] and Goliath [Quin] / Peter Thomson -- Actresses and the economics of celebrity, 1700-1800 / Felicity Nussbaum -- Private lives and public spaces : reputation, celebrity, and the late Victorian actress / Sos Eltis -- Siddons, celebrity, and regality : portraiture and the body of the ageing actress / Shearer West -- "Some of you might have seen him" : Laurence Olivier's celebrity / Peter Holland.
Introduction : the languages of theatrical celebrity / Mary Luckhurst and Jane Moody -- Public intimacy : the prior history of "it" / Joseph Roach -- Wilde : the remarkable rocket / Peter Raby -- The many masks of Clemence Dane / Maggie B. Gale -- Stolen identities : mimicry and the invention of Samuel Foote / Jane Moody -- The celebrity of Edmund Kean : an institutional story / Jacky Bratton -- Infamy and dying young : Sarah Kane, 1971-1999 / Mary Kuckhurst -- Celebrity and rivalry David [Garrick] and Goliath [Quin] / Peter Thomson -- Actresses and the economics of celebrity, 1700-1800 / Felicity Nussbaum -- Private lives and public spaces : reputation, celebrity, and the late Victorian actress / Sos Eltis -- Siddons, celebrity, and regality : portraiture and the body of the aging actress / Shearer West -- "Some of you might have seen him" : Laurence Olivier's celebrity / Peter Holland
