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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... give a fair lady a treat , to wait on her to a Play , to a Ball , or to the Park ; all of which will please the Ladies very much'.21 In the world of this leisure class there was a breed of men whose lives were devoted to giving ' a fair ...
... give a fair lady a treat , to wait on her to a Play , to a Ball , or to the Park ; all of which will please the Ladies very much'.21 In the world of this leisure class there was a breed of men whose lives were devoted to giving ' a fair ...
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... gives the passions of the audience ' leisure to run out ... without troubling the current ' . The English drama , he argues , develops such feelings by ' short speeches and replies ' , which are ' more apt to move the passions and beget ...
... gives the passions of the audience ' leisure to run out ... without troubling the current ' . The English drama , he argues , develops such feelings by ' short speeches and replies ' , which are ' more apt to move the passions and beget ...
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... give him many pleasant hints of her knowledge of him , by that means setting his brains at work to find out who she was ; and did give him leave to use all means to find out who she was but pulling off her mask . He was mighty witty ...
... give him many pleasant hints of her knowledge of him , by that means setting his brains at work to find out who she was ; and did give him leave to use all means to find out who she was but pulling off her mask . He was mighty witty ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
Elizabeth Pepys Playgoer | 49 |
Women in the Playhouse | 65 |
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