Women in Wartime : Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century /

"During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. This book describes how playwrights and theater managers of the period discovered and created transformative theatrical and social roles for actresses and wartime women characters. Women characters came to be cen...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Backscheider, Paula R., 1943- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2021]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Women in the theater.
Women in literature.
Women and war.
Women and the military.
War and theater.
Theater and society.
English drama.
Theater and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
War and theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Women and war > Great Britian > History > 18th century.
Women and the military > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Women in the theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English drama > 18th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"During the long eighteenth century, Great Britain was almost continuously at war. This book describes how playwrights and theater managers of the period discovered and created transformative theatrical and social roles for actresses and wartime women characters. Women characters came to be central figures in bringing the war home to the nation, transforming into deeply patriotic British subjects, and this book interprets them as entertainment and as ideological and propagandistic vehicles in times of crisis"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (456 pages).
ISBN:9781421441696

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