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

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"Lisa Freeman's excellent cultural analysis ... demonstrates that character is a contested site in England's attempt to negotiate a changing sociology of class, gender, and nation even as it retained fundamental forms of patriarchy."--Albion

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freeman, Lisa A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literary form.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Group identity in literature.
English drama.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
DRAMA > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Genres litteraires > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Theâtre anglais > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literary form > History > 18th century.
English drama > 18th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Staged identities: it's just a question of character
  • Plays about plays: an "abstract chronicle"
  • Tragedy's tragic flaw: national character and feminine unruliness
  • Constituting parodies of identity: manners, humours, and intrigue on the comic stage
  • Sentimental comedy: or, the comedy of good breeding.

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