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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Strana 65
... reasons for doing so to account for women of all classes , and that a mask and an accomplished manner could be very difficult to penetrate.2 We know , too , that there were compelling reasons for some women to stay away from the theatre ...
... reasons for doing so to account for women of all classes , and that a mask and an accomplished manner could be very difficult to penetrate.2 We know , too , that there were compelling reasons for some women to stay away from the theatre ...
Strana 72
... reason for staying away from a new play was to protect her modesty is to fall under the misapprehension of certain dramatists that women cared about nothing else when they went to the theatre . Such doubts are not merely destructive ...
... reason for staying away from a new play was to protect her modesty is to fall under the misapprehension of certain dramatists that women cared about nothing else when they went to the theatre . Such doubts are not merely destructive ...
Strana 151
... reason for its failure . Modern critics have opted instead for the view that its satire was too keen for a sensitive audience ; " the author himself observed that the music - meeting shown in the first act , introduced , Southerne says ...
... reason for its failure . Modern critics have opted instead for the view that its satire was too keen for a sensitive audience ; " the author himself observed that the music - meeting shown in the first act , introduced , Southerne says ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
Elizabeth Pepys Playgoer | 49 |
Women in the Playhouse | 65 |
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