The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama, 1660-1700Clarendon Press, 1989 - Počet stran: 188 This is the first in-depth study of a female audience that shows how and why women went to the theater in Restoration England. Robert challenges the assumption that a "ladies' faction" played an important part in encouraging the playhouses to present a more moral, less bawdy or "satirical" style of comedy, thus changing the course of English drama. He shows that there is no evidence of this faction, and that "sentimental" comedies really did cater to the interest of their female audience by incorporating the fashionable concern for women's rights. Drawing on many sources, including the life of Elizabeth Pepys, the book investigates just who these "ladies" were, what determined their theater-going, how often they went, what they liked and did in the theater, and the role of patronage at the court of three Restoration queens. |
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... audience , we must , it seems , reply with a further question : which audience ? There are many indications not only that the arrangement of any given ( or individual ) audience was subject to change , but that there were different ...
... audience , we must , it seems , reply with a further question : which audience ? There are many indications not only that the arrangement of any given ( or individual ) audience was subject to change , but that there were different ...
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... audience differs in important respects from that of one of the most influential scholars in the field , Emmet Avery . Avery's case is that the troublesome elements so often referred to in the prologues and epilogues were minorities ...
... audience differs in important respects from that of one of the most influential scholars in the field , Emmet Avery . Avery's case is that the troublesome elements so often referred to in the prologues and epilogues were minorities ...
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... audience . ' Mercenary fellows ' were employed , ' who were such fools they did not know when to hiss and this was evident to all the audience ' . The majority remained free from the polarities of opinion which the play's enemies sought ...
... audience . ' Mercenary fellows ' were employed , ' who were such fools they did not know when to hiss and this was evident to all the audience ' . The majority remained free from the polarities of opinion which the play's enemies sought ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
Elizabeth Pepys Playgoer | 49 |
Women in the Playhouse | 65 |
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