Performing Identities on the Restoration Stage |
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| Author:
| Lowenthal, Cynthia |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8093-2462-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2002 |
| Publisher: | Southern Illinois University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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Explores identity-especially masculinity and femininity, English and ""foreign"", middle-class and aristocratic-as it is enacted, idealized, deployed, and redefined on the late-seventeenth-century British stage. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways the theatre contributed to new and often shifting early modern definitions of the boundaries of nation, status, and gender.
Explores identity-especially masculinity and femininity, English and ""foreign"", middle-class and aristocratic-as it is enacted, idealized, deployed, and redefined on the late-seventeenth-century British stage. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways the theatre contributed to new and often shifting early modern definitions of the boundaries of nation, status, and gender.