Billy Waters Is Dancing: Or How A Black Sailor Found Fame In Regency Britain Mary L Shannon Yale University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Theatre Studies

The Story Of William Waters Black Street Performer In Regency London And How His Huge Celebrity Took On A Life Its Own Every Child Knew Billy Celebrated “King Beggars ” Likely Born Into Enslavement 1770S New York He Became Royal Navy Sailor After Losing Leg Fall From Rigging Talented Irrepressible London’s Most Famous Extravagantly Costumed Image Blazed Across Stage Print To An Unprecedented Degree For All Contemporary Renown Died Destitute 1823—But Legend Would Live Decades Mary L Shannon’s Biography Draws Together Surviving Traces Waters’ Bring Us Closer Historical Figure Underlying Them Considering Influence Echoing Resonances Visual Art Writing By Douglass Dickens Thackeray Shannon Asks Reconsider Presences Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture This Is Vital Attempt Recover Obscurity—And Fascinating Account What It Meant Find Fame Metropolis Σελίδες: 384 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0902 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm