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02927aam a2200361 i 4500 001 8E8F35CC152711E3AA706A77DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130904010050 008 130128t20132013deu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2012047557 020 $a 1611494222 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781611494228 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)816030356 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d CDX $d BWX $d MUU $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR698.P68 $b S65 2013 082 00 $a 822/.052 $2 23 100 1 $a Solomon, Diana, $d 1970- 245 10 $a Prologues and epilogues of Restoration theater : $b gender and comedy, performance and print / $c Diana Solomon. 260 $a Newark : $b University of Delaware Press, $c [2013], ©2013. 300 $a viii, 263 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 520 $a "Women finally began acting in 1660, well over a century after public playhouses first drew crowds in England. The appearance of the actress has riveted the scholarly gaze, but until now there has been little attention given to a crucial subject: her dramatic prologues and epilogues. Accompanying over ninety per cent of all performed and printed plays between 1660 and 1714, these customized comic verses that promoted the play evolved into essential theatrical elements, and they both contributed to and reflected a performer's success. Once dismissed by scholars as formulaic, prologues and epilogues should be included in scholars' analyses of Restoration and eighteenth-century plays in order for us to understand how Restoration audiences consumed plays. My project unites the Restoration actress and the dramatic prologue and epilogue in the first book-length study on the subject. Methodologically, it contributes to Restoration scholarship by bringing the critical lenses of performance and print culture theory to Restoration theatre. Because my study considers Restoration plays as both performances and publications, it treats plays as their original audiences perceived them, and thus expands our understanding of texts as performative and of performance as textual."--Publisher's website. 505 0 $a Male and female cloaked, and male exposed, paratexts -- The female exposed paratext, part one -- Female exposed paratexts, part two -- Vestal interests: Anne Bracegirdle's paratexts -- Bawdy language: the reception history of Addison's epilogue to the distrest mother. 650 0 $a English drama $y Restoration, 1660-1700 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Prologues and epilogues $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Theater $z England $x History $y 17th century. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180111043726.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826073418.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20140917012805.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8E8F35CC152711E3AA706A77DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search