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Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

Martin Postle, Johann Zoffany, Women Players and Eighteenth Century Theatre

Dr Martin Postle, Assistant Director, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 

Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

Roundtable discussion

Event date
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 10:00
Location
London

This specialist academic conference developed themes raised in the exhibition The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons. Speakers, including Professors Felicity Nussbaum (UCLA) and Joseph Roach (Yale), explored and problematised ideas of ‘celebrity’ culture and the symbolic, allegorical and discursive functions of portraits of women players.

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