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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... sexual intensity . Here is one version of what happened when women disliked the play on offer : But here's the plague , they being of female kind , Have all the passions of a female mind : Their humours are as various as the wind , With ...
... sexual intensity . Here is one version of what happened when women disliked the play on offer : But here's the plague , they being of female kind , Have all the passions of a female mind : Their humours are as various as the wind , With ...
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... sexual territories so often invoked in the prologues and epilogues . Even where social discrimination is allowed , it is of little help in determining the sexual balance of the audience . An Italian traveller of the late 1660s , Count ...
... sexual territories so often invoked in the prologues and epilogues . Even where social discrimination is allowed , it is of little help in determining the sexual balance of the audience . An Italian traveller of the late 1660s , Count ...
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... sexual commerce ; and that prologue was spoken by an actor famous for his portrayals of libido untrammelled , Thomas Betterton.81 The play can have promised little to the less reasonable part of mankind but two hours ' traffic of ...
... sexual commerce ; and that prologue was spoken by an actor famous for his portrayals of libido untrammelled , Thomas Betterton.81 The play can have promised little to the less reasonable part of mankind but two hours ' traffic of ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
Elizabeth Pepys Playgoer | 49 |
Women in the Playhouse | 65 |
Autorská práva | |
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