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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... evidence of a highly literate and discerning presence which has nothing to do with the familiar categories of ladies and city - wives , or , indeed , with the representatives of the genteel and professional classes whose presence has ...
... evidence of a highly literate and discerning presence which has nothing to do with the familiar categories of ladies and city - wives , or , indeed , with the representatives of the genteel and professional classes whose presence has ...
Strana 136
... evidence to show that such opportunities , if they were felt , were scarcely acted upon in the way he claims . We may best begin to › examine the evidence by heading for the centre - piece of Smith's argument , the allegedly seminal ...
... evidence to show that such opportunities , if they were felt , were scarcely acted upon in the way he claims . We may best begin to › examine the evidence by heading for the centre - piece of Smith's argument , the allegedly seminal ...
Strana 139
... evidence of it , merely a problem . Dramatists had been exercising their ingenuity in the rhyming couplets of prologues and epilogues for over thirty years before Sir Robert Howard complained , in his prologue to The Vestal Virgin of ...
... evidence of it , merely a problem . Dramatists had been exercising their ingenuity in the rhyming couplets of prologues and epilogues for over thirty years before Sir Robert Howard complained , in his prologue to The Vestal Virgin of ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
Elizabeth Pepys Playgoer | 49 |
Women in the Playhouse | 65 |
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