Character's Theater : Genre and Identity on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage /

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If the whole world acted the player, how did the player act the world? In Character's Theater, Lisa A. Freeman uses this question to test recent critical discussion of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Much current work, she observes, focuses on the concept of theatricality as both the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Freeman, Lisa A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Temas:
Characters and characteristics in literature.
English drama > 18th century > History and criticism.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Literary form > History > 18th century.
Cultural Studies.
DRAMA / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: A Prologue
  • Chapter One. Staged Identities
  • Chapter Two. Plays About Plays
  • Chapter Three. Tragedy's Tragic Flaw
  • Chapter Four. Constituting Parodies of Identity
  • Chapter Five. Sentimental Comedy: Or, The Comedy of Good Breeding
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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