The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama, 1660-1700 (Oxford English Monographs) - Tapa dura
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"The Ladies" is a study of the connection between women and the theatre in Restoration England. It examines the plays they saw, what they liked, how often they went, how they behaved in the theatre and their role as patrons of drama. It also examines their class backround and describes the position of women generally in Restoration society. Roberts criticizes the view that a "ladies faction" caused the change from bawdy to sentimental comedy, thereby altering the course of English drama. However, he argues that certain sentimental comedies catered for the interests of their female audience by taking advantage of the fashionable concern for women's rights.
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- EditorialClarendon Press
- Año de publicación1989
- ISBN 10 0198117434
- ISBN 13 9780198117438
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- Número de páginas198
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The Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama, 1660-1700
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Clarendon Press, Oxford
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0198117434
ISBN 13: 9780198117438
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 188 pages; 23 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Top edge, endpapers & DJ flaps lightly soiled. Age toning. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Dust jacket, with a sunned spine, protected in a mylar cover. "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." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The age and the Ladies; Elizabeth Pepys, Play-goer; Women in the Playhouse; Women at Court and Patronage of the stage; The Ladies and the change in comedy. Size: 8vo. Nº de ref. del artículo: 119187
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Ladies: Female Patronage of Restoration Drama.
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Oxford University Press,, Oxford:
(1989)
ISBN 10: 0198117434
ISBN 13: 9780198117438
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Nº de ref. del artículo: 69161
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