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• Title: Politesse and the Woman at Risk: The Social Comedies of Marie-Therese de Camp.
• Author : Comparative Drama
• Release Date : January 22, 2004
• Genre: Performing Arts,Books,Arts & Entertainment,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 228 KB

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The actress and playwright Marie-Therese De Camp (1774-1838) is described--by biographers of her more famous daughter, the actress, diarist, and playwright, Fanny Kemble--as dedicated to outdoor pursuits (principally angling and riding), moody, and, later in life, eccentric in her behavior. (1) She is additionally recorded as unimpeachably chaste, virtuous, and respectable, a habitual member of the London's Swiss congregation. Despite this reputation, the whiff of scandal touched her in 1795 when, as one of the young leading lights of the company of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, she caught the inebriated attentions of the theater's actor-manager, John Philip Kemble. He burst into her dressing room and pressed his unwanted attentions upon the young lady--an incident that both Ellen Donkin and Claire Tomalin quite justifiably describe as an attempted rape. (2) The resulting furor attracted swift help and little damage seemed done to either party. However, immediately thereafter Kemble apologized in a remarkably public manner. The Times ran an announcement: The affair seemed to be over until, in 1800, Charles Kemble, John Philip's younger brother, announced his desire to marry his vivacious costar, De Camp. The elder Kemble at first refused to allow the match, eventually agreeing to it only if the couple would wait until Charles's thirtieth birthday. Thus, despite both being successful actors, in command of excellent incomes, and potentially independent, Charles Kemble and Marie-Therese De Camp waited the allotted span to marry, on 2 July 1806, with the blessing of the Kemble clan, and the determinedly patriarchal John Philip giving the bride away. (4)

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