Character's theater : genre and identity on the eighteenth-century english stage /

"Lisa Freeman's excellent cultural analysis... demonstrates that character is a contested site in England's attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy." Albion.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Freeman, Lisa A.
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2002]
©2002
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812201949
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Summary: "Lisa Freeman's excellent cultural analysis... demonstrates that character is a contested site in England's attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy." Albion.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: 8 illus.
ISBN: 9780812201949
Index Number: PR708
CLC: I561.073
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction: A Prologue --
Chapter One. Staged Identities --
Chapter Two. Plays About Plays --
Chapter Three. Tragedy's Tragic Flaw --
Chapter Four. Constituting Parodies of Identity --
Chapter Five. Sentimental Comedy: Or, The Comedy of Good Breeding --
Epilogue --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index --
Acknowledgments.