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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... claim to have passed the time in the most familiar , probable way imaginable ) .26 The lady herself spends a good deal of time at the theatre and at cards , and on Sundays she indulges in ' Chit - Chat ' about ' New Fashions and New ...
... claim to have passed the time in the most familiar , probable way imaginable ) .26 The lady herself spends a good deal of time at the theatre and at cards , and on Sundays she indulges in ' Chit - Chat ' about ' New Fashions and New ...
Strana 154
... claim victory , to persuade those who might be expected to identify with him that it is they who have been vindicated , and not the wife and her party . The appeal to the baser instincts is scarcely veiled ; within Lovemore's proposal ...
... claim victory , to persuade those who might be expected to identify with him that it is they who have been vindicated , and not the wife and her party . The appeal to the baser instincts is scarcely veiled ; within Lovemore's proposal ...
Strana 157
... claim to be vindicated , so anticipating what Parnell has called the businesslike equivocation of Love's Last Shift , but it is clear that the claims of the one are as brash as the victory of the other is without reward . Neither party ...
... claim to be vindicated , so anticipating what Parnell has called the businesslike equivocation of Love's Last Shift , but it is clear that the claims of the one are as brash as the victory of the other is without reward . Neither party ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
Elizabeth Pepys Playgoer | 49 |
Women in the Playhouse | 65 |
Autorská práva | |
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