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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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
Publication Dates: |
[2002] ©2002 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812201949 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812201949.jpg |
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. |