Abra-mule, Or, Love and Empire
Author : Joseph Trapp
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 1711
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Author : Joseph Trapp
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 1711
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Author : Diana Solomon
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611494230
This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship.
Author : Jean I. Marsden
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501728520
Informed by film theory and a broad historical approach, Fatal Desire examines the theatrical representation of women in England, from the Restoration to the early eighteenth century—a period when for the first time female actors could perform in public. Jean I. Marsden maintains that the feminization of serious drama during this period is tied to the cultural function of theater. Women served as symbols of both domestic and imperial propriety, and so Marsden links the representation of women on the stage to the social context in which the plays appeared and to the moral and often political lessons they offered the audience. The witty heroines of comedies were usually absorbed into the social fabric by marrying similarly lighthearted gentlemen, but the heroines of tragedy suffered for their sins, real or perceived. That suffering served the dual purpose of titillating and educating the theater audience. Marsden discusses such plays as William Wycherley's Plain Dealer (1676), John Vanbrugh's Provoked Wife (1697), Thomas Otway's Orphan (1680), Thomas Southerne's Fatal Marriage (1694), and William Congreve's Mourning Bride (1697). The author also addresses tragedies written by three female playwrights, Mary Pix, Catharine Trotter, and Delarivier Manley, and sketches developments in tragedy during the period.
Author : George Farquhar
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1728
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Author : Robert Warder
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 1816
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Author : Boston Public Library. Barton Collection
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Page : 888 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Boston Public Library. Barton Collection
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Page : 658 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Boston Public Library. Barton Collection
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Boston Public Library. Barton Collection
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Page : 650 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : T. Osborne
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1756
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