63 records matched your query       

Title:

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

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xii, 178 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700--History and criticism.
English drama--18th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--England--History--17th century.
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.

Other Authors:

Gill, Catie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0754699447 (ebook)
9780754699446 (ebook)
1409400573 (hardback)
9781409400578 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)542263674

LCCN:

2010007270

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)