The Prologues and Epilogues of the Restoration 1660-1700: 1691-1700 (2 v.)
Author: Pierre Danchin
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Nancy
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 430
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Author: Pierre Danchin
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Nancy
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 430
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 402
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 800
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 468
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 420
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Author: Pierre Danchin
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 458
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 436
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Diana Solomon
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2013-04-11
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 1644530775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften perceived as merely formulaic or historical documents, dramatic prologues and epilogues – players’ comic, poetic bids for the audience’s good opinion – became essential parts of Restoration theater, appearing in over 90 percent of performed and printed plays between 1660 and 1714. Their popularity coincided with the rise of the English actress, and Prologues and Epilogues of Restoration Theater unites these elements in the first book-length study on the subject. It finds that these paratexts provided the first sanctioned space for actresses in Britain to voice ideas in public, communicate directly with other women, and perform comedy – arguably the most powerful type of speech, and one that enabled interrogation of misogynist social practices. This book provides a taxonomy of prologues and epilogues with a corresponding appendix, and demonstrates through case studies of Anne Bracegirdle and Anne Oldfield how the study of prologues and epilogues enriches Restoration theater scholarship. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author: Felicity Nussbaum
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-10-11
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0812206894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their audiences, celebrated actresses were among the first women to achieve social mobility, cultural authority, and financial independence. In fact, Nussbaum contends, the eighteenth century might well be called the "age of the actress" in the British theater, given women's influence on the dramatic repertory and, through it, on the definition of femininity. Treating individual star actresses who helped spark a cult of celebrity—especially Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, Catherine Clive, Margaret Woffington, Frances Abington, and George Anne Bellamy—Rival Queens reveals the way these women animated issues of national identity, property, patronage, and fashion in the context of their dramatic performances. Actresses intentionally heightened their commercial appeal by catapulting the rivalries among themselves to center stage. They also boldly challenged in importance the actor-managers who have long dominated eighteenth-century theater history and criticism. Felicity Nussbaum combines an emphasis on the actresses themselves with close analysis of their diverse roles in works by major playwrights, including George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe, Colley Cibber, Arthur Murphy, David Garrick, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Richard Sheridan. Hers is a comprehensive and original argument about the importance of actresses as the first modern subjects, actively shaping their public identities to make themselves into celebrated properties.