Marcie Frank

Gender, Theatre, and the Origins of Criticism (eBook, PDF)

From Dryden to Manley

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Produktbeschreibung

In Gender, Theatre and the Origins of Criticism, Marcie Frank explores the theoretical and literary legacy of John Dryden to a number of prominent women writers of the time. Frank examines the pre-eminence of gender, sexuality and the theatre in Dryden's critical texts that are predominantly rewritings of the work of his own literary precursors - Ben Jonson, Shakespeare and Milton. She proposes that Dryden develops a native literary tradition that is passed on as an inheritance to his heirs - Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley - as well as their male contemporaries. Frank describes the development of criticism in the transition from a court-sponsored theatrical culture to one oriented toward a consuming public, with very different attitudes to gender and sexuality. This study also sets out to trace the historical origins of certain aspects of current criticism - the practices of paraphrase, critical self-consciousness and performativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511030666
• Artikelnr.: 38198645

Autorenporträt

Marcie Frank is Associate Professor of English at Concordia University in Montréal. She has published essays on David Cronenberg, Susan Sontag, and Horace Walpole.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: the critical stage
1. 'Equal to ourselves': John Dryden's national literary history
2. Staging criticism, staging Milton: John Dryden's The State of Innocence
3. Imitating Shakespeare: gender and criticism
4. The female playwright and the city lady
5. Scandals of a female nature
Bibliography
Index.