HEATHER LADD is a former associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is the co-editor of this collection and has published on many eighteenth-century writers, including Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, John Gay, Thomas D’Urfey, and Elizabeth Craven. She is now located in Vancouver, British Columbia.LESLIE RITCHIE is a professor of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity and Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Social Harmony in Literature and Performance.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600–1800Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchiePART IACTING BADLY: MISBEHAVING PERFORMERS1 Killing Delane; or, Mimickry and the Anecdota obscuraLeslie Ritchie2 Violent Afterlives: The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater BiographiesMÁire Macneill3 Samuel Foote, Esq.: Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical AnecdoteHeather LaddPART IIANECDOTAL BODIES4 Pregnancy and the Late Stuart Stage, 1661–1702Chelsea Phillips5 “A High Treat to the Anecdote Hunters!”: The Body of Mrs. Sophia BaddeleyNevena Martinocvić6 A Bellyful of Nightingales: Seven Stories of Seven SingersMichael BurdenPART IIIACTING CAREERS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTE7 Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several AnecdotesFiona Ritchie8 Neither Confirmed nor Refuted: The Anecdotal Elizabeth BarrySeth WilsonPART IVANECDOTES’ AFTERLIVES: SCHOLARLY ENCOUNTERS9 Anecdotal Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates’s Trip to Drury LaneElaine Mcgirr10 The Vanishing Subject in “Anecdotal” Abridgments of Theatrical BiographiesAmanda Weldy Boyd11 Queering Roxane from Davenant to RichardsonDanielle BobkerCoda: Whither Theatrical Anecdote?Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchieBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

HEATHER LADD is a former associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is the co-editor of this collection and has published on many eighteenth-century writers, including Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, John Gay, Thomas D’Urfey, and Elizabeth Craven. She is now located in Vancouver, British Columbia.LESLIE RITCHIE is a professor of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity and Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Social Harmony in Literature and Performance.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600–1800Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchiePART IACTING BADLY: MISBEHAVING PERFORMERS1 Killing Delane; or, Mimickry and the Anecdota obscuraLeslie Ritchie2 Violent Afterlives: The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater BiographiesMÁire Macneill3 Samuel Foote, Esq.: Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical AnecdoteHeather LaddPART IIANECDOTAL BODIES4 Pregnancy and the Late Stuart Stage, 1661–1702Chelsea Phillips5 “A High Treat to the Anecdote Hunters!”: The Body of Mrs. Sophia BaddeleyNevena Martinocvić6 A Bellyful of Nightingales: Seven Stories of Seven SingersMichael BurdenPART IIIACTING CAREERS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTE7 Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several AnecdotesFiona Ritchie8 Neither Confirmed nor Refuted: The Anecdotal Elizabeth BarrySeth WilsonPART IVANECDOTES’ AFTERLIVES: SCHOLARLY ENCOUNTERS9 Anecdotal Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates’s Trip to Drury LaneElaine Mcgirr10 The Vanishing Subject in “Anecdotal” Abridgments of Theatrical BiographiesAmanda Weldy Boyd11 Queering Roxane from Davenant to RichardsonDanielle BobkerCoda: Whither Theatrical Anecdote?Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchieBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

HEATHER LADD is a former associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. She is the co-editor of this collection and has published on many eighteenth-century writers, including Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, John Gay, Thomas D’Urfey, and Elizabeth Craven. She is now located in Vancouver, British Columbia.LESLIE RITCHIE is a professor of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is the author of David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity and Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Social Harmony in Literature and Performance.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Miniature Stages of Celebrity: English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1600–1800Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchiePART IACTING BADLY: MISBEHAVING PERFORMERS1 Killing Delane; or, Mimickry and the Anecdota obscuraLeslie Ritchie2 Violent Afterlives: The Anecdote in Eighteenth-Century Theater BiographiesMÁire Macneill3 Samuel Foote, Esq.: Caricature, Class, and the Comic Theatrical AnecdoteHeather LaddPART IIANECDOTAL BODIES4 Pregnancy and the Late Stuart Stage, 1661–1702Chelsea Phillips5 “A High Treat to the Anecdote Hunters!”: The Body of Mrs. Sophia BaddeleyNevena Martinocvić6 A Bellyful of Nightingales: Seven Stories of Seven SingersMichael BurdenPART IIIACTING CAREERS AND THE PROFESSIONAL ANECDOTE7 Anecdote and the Regional Actress: A History of the Farren Family in Several AnecdotesFiona Ritchie8 Neither Confirmed nor Refuted: The Anecdotal Elizabeth BarrySeth WilsonPART IVANECDOTES’ AFTERLIVES: SCHOLARLY ENCOUNTERS9 Anecdotal Origin Stories: Mary Ann Yates’s Trip to Drury LaneElaine Mcgirr10 The Vanishing Subject in “Anecdotal” Abridgments of Theatrical BiographiesAmanda Weldy Boyd11 Queering Roxane from Davenant to RichardsonDanielle BobkerCoda: Whither Theatrical Anecdote?Heather Ladd and Leslie RitchieBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex