Theatre and Culture in Early Modern England, 1650-1737

From Leviathan to Licensing Act
Herausgeber: Gill, Catie

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical and non-canonical texts within the scope of an eighty-year period of theatre history, allowing for definition and assessment that uncouples Restoration drama from eighteenth-century drama. Paying special attention to literary innovation and sociopolitical changes, this book is a valuable tool for scholars of Restoration and eighteenth-century performance, providing groundwork for future research and investigation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781409400578
• ISBN-10: 1409400573
• Artikelnr.: 47820480

Autorenporträt

Catie Gill is lecturer in Early Modern Writing at Loughborough University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Catie Gill; What do the servants know?, Paddy
Lyons; Flinging the book away: books, reading and gender in the Restoration
stage, Jacqueline Pearson; Coffee-houses and Restoration drama, Juan A.
Prieto-Pablos; Sex and tyranny revisited: Waller's The Maid's Tragedy and
Rochester's Valentinian, Sandra Clark; Sex, tyranny and the problem of
allegiance: political drama during the Restoration, Warren Chernaik; The
adaptation of 17th-century Spanish drama to the English stage during the
Restoration period: the case of Chalderón, Jorge Braga Riera; The female
wits: women writers at work, Jane Milling; 'Jilting jades'? Perceptions of
female playgoers in the Restoration, 1660-1700, Fiona Ritchie; Revolution
and the moral reform of the stage: the case of Durfey's The Marriage-Hater
Matched (1692), MarÃa José Mora and Manuel J. Gómez-Lara; Works cited;
Index.