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Cultural Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Theater
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Deborah Payne Fisk
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Ranging in approach from feminist to historicist, the eleven essays in this collection share the culturalist premise that the drama of late Stuart and early Geo
Tricksters & Estates
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: J. Douglas Canfield
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-01-01 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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These comedies are full of tricksters attempting to gain estates, the emblem and the reality of power in late feudal England. The tricksters appear in a number
Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater
Language: en
Pages: 163
Authors: Diana Solomon
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-11 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Often perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues – players’ comic, poetic bids for the audience’s good opinio
Character's Theater
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Lisa A. Freeman
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-07 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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If the whole world acted the player, how did the player act the world? In Character's Theater, Lisa A. Freeman uses this question to test recent critical discus
A Race of Female Patriots
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Brett D. Wilson
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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A Race of Female Patriots is a study of tragic drama after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that yields new insight into women's involvement in the public sphere