Staging Memory and Materiality in EighteenthCentury Theatrical Biography examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenthcentury England. This study suggests a visiblebut not impermeableteleology from Thomas Davies to James Boaden in the development of theatrical biography as a professional enterprise. Chapter One explores Davies the first significant biographer to throw off the shadows of anonymity and weld his own image to his subject David Garrick. The second chapter trace