Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical WCharlotte Charke's father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth century's great actor playwrights and it was thought that the comedically gifted young Charlotte would follow in his footsteps at the legendary Drury Lane. However, Charlotte's habit of wearing men's clothes off stage as well as on, proved an obstacle to her career. Kathryn Shevelow re creates Charlotte's downfall from the heights of London's theatrical world to its lascivious lows