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Prologues And Epilogues Of Restoration Theater eBook

Gender And Comedy, Performance And Print

de Diana Solomon
idioma: inglês
Editor: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS, abril de 2013 ‧
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Often perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues— players' comic, poetic bids for the audience's good opinion—became essential parts of Restoration theater, appearing in over 90 percent of performed and printed plays between 1660 and 1714. Their popularity coincided with the rise of the English actress, and Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater unites these elements in the first book-length study on the subject. It finds that these paratexts provided the first sanctioned space for actresses in Britain to voice ideas in public, communicate directly with other women, and perform comedy—arguably the most powerful type of speech, and one that enabled interrogation of misogynist social practices. This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.


Prologues And Epilogues Of Restoration Theater

Gender And Comedy, Performance And Print

de Diana Solomon

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ISBN: 9781611494235
Editor: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE PRESS
Data de Lançamento: abril de 2013
Idioma: Inglês
Tipo de produto: eBook
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Classificação Temática: eBooks em Inglês > Literatura > Ensaios
EAN: 9781611494235