Theatre and culture in early modern England, 1650-1737 : from Leviathan to Licensing Act / edited by Catie Gill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gill, Catie.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama--18th century--History and criticism.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

Theater and society.

History.

England.

Literature and society--England--History--18th century.

Theater and society--England--History--17th century.

Theater and society--England--History--18th century.

Social history in literature.

Social change in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 178 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2010.

Contents:

Introduction / Catie Gill

What do the servants know? / Paddy Lyons

Flinging the book away: books, reading and gender on the Restoration stage / Jacqueline Pearson

Coffee-houses and Restoration drama / Juan A. Prieto-Pablos

Sex and tyranny revisited: Waller's The maid's tragedy and Rochester's Valentinian / Sandra Clark

Sex, tyranny and the problem of allegiance: political drama during the Restoration / Warren Chernaik

The adaptation of seventeenth-century Spanish drama to the English stage during the Restoration period / Jorge Braga Riera

The female wits: women writers at work / Jane Milling

"Jilting jades"? perceptions of female playgoers in the Restoration, 1660-1700 / Fiona Ritchie

Revolution and the moral reform of the stage: the case of Durfey's The marriage-hater matched (1692) / María José Mora and Manuel J. Gómez-Lara.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781409400578

1409400573

9780754699446

0754699447

OCLC:

542263674